Chapter 7 Further Reading

Foundational Texts

Pande, R. (2018). Squee from the Margins: Fandom and Race. University of Iowa Press. The essential text for this chapter. Pande's combination of empirical fan community research with theoretical sophistication makes this the most important single volume on race in fan studies.

Chin, B., & Morimoto, L. H. (2013). "Towards a theory of transcultural fandom." Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, 10(1), 92–108. Develops a framework for understanding fan engagement across cultural and national contexts — important for sections 7.6 on K-pop.

Wanzo, R. (2015). "African American acafandom and other strangers: New genealogies of fan studies." Transformative Works and Cultures, 20. Argues for the distinctiveness of African American fan practices and their relationship to African American cultural history. Essential counter-weight to fan studies' tendency to universalize from white experience.

Race, Representation, and Media

Morrison, T. (1992). Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. Harvard University Press. Morrison's analysis of how the "Africanist presence" shapes American literature and imagination provides the theoretical foundation for understanding the racial default in fan culture.

hooks, b. (1992). "The oppositional gaze: Black female spectators." In Black Looks: Race and Representation (pp. 115–131). South End Press. Theorizes how Black audiences, particularly Black women, develop a critical gaze toward media that excludes or demeans them — directly applicable to fan communities' critical practices.

Crenshaw, K. (1989). "Demarginalizing the intersection of race and sex: A Black feminist critique of antidiscrimination doctrine." University of Chicago Legal Forum, 1989(1), 139–167. The foundational intersectionality text — essential for Chapter 7's and Chapter 43's frameworks.

Fan Studies: Race

De Kosnik, A. (Ed.). (2016). #Transformative Works: Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of Internet. University of Michigan Press. Multiple essays on race in fan fiction communities and fan archiving practices.

Gatson, S. N., & Reid, R. A. (2012). "Race and ethnicity in fandom." Transformative Works and Cultures, 8. A special issue guest-edited by Gatson and Reid; multiple essays addressing different aspects of race in fan communities. Begin with the editorial introduction.

López, L. (2011). "Fan fiction, 'race,' and the future of fandom." In Fandom Unbound: Otaku Culture in a Connected World. University of Washington Press. Addresses fan fiction specifically, connecting whitewashing practices to the broader racial politics of fan creativity.

K-Pop and Race

Jung, S. (2011). Korean Masculinities and Transcultural Consumption. Hong Kong University Press. Analyzes how Korean masculinity is consumed and transformed by international K-pop fan communities — important context for understanding K-pop's racial dynamics.

Oh, I., & Park, G.-S. (2012). "From B2C to B2B: Selling Korean pop music in the age of new social media." Korea Observer, 43(3), 365–397. Industry analysis of K-pop's global distribution strategy — essential for understanding the economic structure within which K-pop's racial politics operate.

Valdivia, A. N. (2018). Race, Media, and the Crisis of Civil Society. Cambridge University Press. Broader theoretical framework for understanding race in global media, applicable to K-pop's transnational racial dynamics.

Black Fan Culture

Florini, S. (2019). Beyond Hashtags: Racial Politics and Black Digital Networks. New York University Press. Examines Black Twitter as a cultural formation, including its fan community dimensions. Essential for section 7.3.

Benjamin, R. (2019). Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code. Polity Press. Addresses how racial bias is reproduced through digital platforms — applicable to AO3's racial dynamics and fan platform governance.

Convention Culture

Williams, R. (2020). Theme Park Fandom: Spatial Histories, Embodied Memories. Amsterdam University Press. Examines fan spaces as physical environments and their demographic accessibility — applicable to convention culture analysis.

Scott, S. (2019). Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry. New York University Press. Addresses gender in fan convention culture primarily, but the structural analysis of convention access is applicable to racial access as well.