Darrell Hamamoto
Darrell Y. Hamamoto is an American writer, academic, and specialist in U.S. media and ethnic studies. He was a scholar of Asian American media and professor for almost 23 years at the University of California, Davis before retiring in 2018.[1]
Education[edit]
Hamamoto received his education at CSU Long Beach, Bowling Green State University and UC Irvine.[2]
Influential works[edit]
He created a 50-minute erotic film named Skin on Skin, which starred Asian American actors and actresses and addresses the desexualization of Asian American males. Hamamoto created another piece called Yellowcaust: A Patriot Act, which includes clips from Skin on Skin and information regarding atrocities committed against Asian Americans in the U.S.'s history.[3] His work has generated controversy for producing porn movies as research.[4][5][6][7]
Hamamoto was featured in both The Daily Show[8] and Masters of the Pillow,[9] which is a documentary about Skin on Skin.
Conspiracy Theories[edit]
Professor Hamamoto has promoted several conspiracy theories in both his academic and personal life. He has made several appearances on the far-right InfoWars radio program, hosted by Alex Jones, where he has promoted the white genocide theory, as well as a theory that U.S. Senator John Kerry and the Obama Foundation were involved to a plot to split Hurricane Lane into two separate storms via a secret directed-energy weapon housed in Antarctica.[10] Professor Hamamoto also made a 2014 appearance on the Red Ice Radio program.
Books[edit]
- Nervous Laughter: Television Situation Comedy and Liberal Democratic Ideology, Praeger, 1991
- Monitored Peril: Asian Americans and the Politics of TV Representation, University of Minnesota Press, 1994
- New American Destinies: A Reader in Contemporary Asian and Latino Immigration, Routledge, 1996
- Countervisions: Asian American Film Criticism (Asian American History and Culture), Temple University Press, 2000
- Servitors of Empire: Studies in the Dark Side of Asian America, Trine Day, 2014
References[edit]
- ^ "Presenting Our Retirees, Class of 2017-18". 20 August 2018.
- ^ "Asian American Studies, UC Davis". Archived from the original on 2009-06-16. Retrieved 2008-12-31.
- ^ "Darrell Hamamoto - Davis - LocalWiki".
- ^ Masters of the Pillow Robert Koehler, May 26, 2004 Variety.com
- ^ Yellow Porn Archived 2008-05-14 at the Wayback Machine Harry Mok, October 10, 2003 Salon.com
- ^ Research Stirs Interest Archived 2011-06-07 at the Wayback Machine Susanne Rockwell, November 7, 2003 University of California Davis, Faculty Dateline News
- ^ Porn as commentary Film on Asian issues grabs attention, stirs debate Dorothy Korber, November 3, 2003 - Sacramento Bee
- ^ "Home". thedailyshow.com.
- ^ "Masters of the Pillow". IMDb.
- ^ "Infowars host: Hurricane threatening Hawaii has been split in two by energy beam shot from Antarctica". Media Matters for America. 2018-08-24. Retrieved 2018-09-21.
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- Living people
- American academics of Japanese descent
- American orientalists
- American writers of Japanese descent
- Bowling Green State University alumni
- California State University, Long Beach alumni
- East Asian studies scholars
- InfoWars people
- University of California, Davis faculty
- University of California, Irvine alumni