Fan activists and the politics of race in The Last Airbender

International Journal of Cultural Studies

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 431-445

  Lopez, Lori Kido ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

activism; Asian American; civic engagement; fandom; representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864766190     PISSN: 13678779     EISSN: 1460356X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1367877911422862     Document Type: Article

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