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Doctor Who and Race.
Title:
Doctor Who and Race.
Author:
Orthia, Lindy.
ISBN:
9781783201242
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (320 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I: The Doctor, his companions and race -- Chapter 1: The white Doctor -- Chapter 2: Too brown for a fair praise: The depiction of racial prejudice as cultural heritage in Doctor Who -- Chapter 3: Conscious colour-blindness, unconscious racism in Doctor Who companions -- Chapter 4: Doctor Who, cricket and race: The Peter Davison years -- Chapter 5: Humanity as a white metaphor -- Chapter 6: "You can't just change what I look like without consulting me!": The shifting racial identity of the Doctor -- PART II: Diversity and representation in casting and characterization -- Chapter 7: No room for old-fashioned cats: Davies era Who and interracial romance -- Chapter 8: When white boys write black: Race and class in the Davies and Moffat eras -- Chapter 9: Baby steps: a modest solution to Asian under-representation in Doctor Who -- Chapter 10: That was then, this is now: How my perceptions have changed -- Chapter 11: "One of us is yellow": Doctor Fu Manchu and The Talons of Weng-Chiang -- PART III: Colonialism, imperialism, slavery and the diaspora -- Chapter 12: Inventing America: The Aztecs in context -- Chapter 13: The Ood as a slave race: Colonial continuity in the Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire -- Chapter 14: Doctor Who and the critique of western imperialism -- Chapter 15: Through coloured eyes: An alternative viewing of postcolonial transition -- PART IV: Xenophobia, nationalism and national identities -- Chapter 16: The allegory of allegory: Race, racism and the summer of 2011 -- Chapter 17: Doctor Who and the racial state: Fighting National Socialism across time and space -- Chapter 18: Religion, racism and the Church of England in Doctor Who.

Chapter 19: The Doctor is in (the Antipodes): Doctor Who short fiction and Australian national identity -- PART V: Race and science -- Chapter 20: "They hate each other's chromosomes": Eugenics and the shifting racial identity of the Daleks -- Chapter 21: Mapping the boundaries of race in The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood -- Chapter 22: Savages, science, stagism and the naturalized ascendancy of the Not-We in Doctor Who -- Conclusion -- About the contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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