Greg Carter

Associate Professor of HistoryUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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“We Don’t Serve Their Kind Here:” Finding Spaces for Minority Fanship

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Greg Carter University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

May 13, 2019
“We Don’t Serve Their Kind Here:” Finding Spaces for Minority Fanship race fandom Science Fiction comics Star Wars Curator's Note This past fall, my research assistant and I searched YouTube for “black Star Wars fans” and discovered the video excerpt ...

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Re: It's not you, Lexa, it's your 'tan'

I had not heard of Clexacon.

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Greg Carter University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Wednesday, May 15, 2019 — 7:05 pm
Erika, thanks for this! I had not heard of Clexacon but now I'm curious to know more. I did some cursory Googling but I'm still wondering, does it provide an adequate forum for queer women of color to discuss issues? Was that an organizer of the ...
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Re: #SaveODAAT, Yalitza Aparicio and Latinx Fandom

We tried, sorry.

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Greg Carter University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Wednesday, May 15, 2019 — 7:28 pm
Roberto, thank you for sharing this. I had seen out of the corner of my eye that the sitcom, One Day at a Time, had been revived but I didn't have time to check it out. You set up some great juxtapositions--U.S. vs. Latin America Latinidad, art film ...
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Re: Hypervisibility and Racism in Fandom

After all, if fandom ignores you, should you stay home?

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Greg Carter University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Friday, May 17, 2019 — 2:14 pm
Rukmini, thanks for this. (I had entertained using this video for my post, but guessed that someone else could use it to greater effect, as you have.) Among the many issues your essay intersects with, I believe the treatment of minority fans, whether marg ...