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DESCRIPTION:By analyzing how millennial Jewish stars market themselves onsc
 reen\, Jonathan Branfman trailblazes new insights about Jewishness and anti
 semitism\, about race and gender more broadly\, and about how stars symboli
 ze national politics. He unveils these insights through case studies on six
  leading millennial Jewish stars: the biracial rap superstar Drake\, comedi
 c rapper Lil Dicky\, TV comedy duo Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer\, “man-ba
 by” film star Seth Rogen\, and chiseled film star Zac Efron. Mining all typ
 es of media—from films to Tweets\, reddit threads\, YouTube webisodes\, and
  Congressional hearings—each case study opens new dialogues between Jewish 
 studies\, gender studies\, media studies\, and critical race studies. \n\nS
 peaker Bio: \n\nJonathan Branfman researches how Jewish performers embody r
 ace\, gender\, and sexuality in U.S. popular media\, including digital medi
 a like YouTube. His work invites Jewish\, feminist\, queer\, critical race\
 , and media studies to grasp how historical antisemitism shapes present-day
  U.S. visual culture\, and how Jewish stars harness this stigma to enter Am
 erica's core cultural debates. For instance\, the Black Jewish rap supersta
 r Drake must reconcile clashing stigmas of Jewish emasculation and Black hy
 permasculinity. And although Drake presents many different masculinities\, 
 all his personae embody U.S. disputes about hip hop itself as an oft-vilifi
 ed Black art form. Drake is one of six stars analyzed in Jonathan's book\, 
 Millennial Jewish Stardom: Masculinity\, Racial Minstrelsy\, & Queer Glamor
 \, forthcoming in 2024 from New York University Press. Jonathan’s second bo
 ok project\, Jews & News Satire: Embodying Candor in the Age of Fake News\,
  focuses on Jon Stewart\, Sarah Silverman\, and Sacha Baron Cohen. Jonathan
 's research has also appeared in Television & New Media\, the Journal of Mo
 dern Jewish Studies\, and the Journal of Homosexuality. To advance intersec
 tional feminist theories of antisemitism\, he has also analyzed "Jewish-Pro
 gressive Conflict" in the journal Frontiers. To share feminist and queer ed
 ucation beyond academia\, Jonathan has likewise published an intersectional
  LGBTQ children's book\, You Be You! The Kid's Guide to Gender\, Sexuality 
 & Family. This guide has now been translated into 25 languages\, including 
 Yiddish and Hebrew. Jonathan also looks forward to offering the popular cou
 rse\, Passing: Hidden Identities Onscreen\, in spring 2025. By analyzing fi
 lms like Gentleman's Agreement\, School Ties\, Maid in Manhattan\, and Whit
 e Chicks\, students explore how Jewishness\, Blackness\, Latinidad\, womanh
 ood\, and queerness all interact in American cinema. \n\nBook Information\n
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SUMMARY:Millennial Jewish Stars: Navigating Racial Antisemitism\, Masculini
 ty\, & White Supremacy
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URL:https://events.stanford.edu/event/millennial-jewish-stars-navigating-ra
 cial-antisemitism-masculinity-whitesupremacy
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