I bring that yellow to the rap game: Asian American feminisms in rap music
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis considers how three women rappers of Asian descent --Masia One, Rocky Rivera and Awkwafina -make statements of Asian self--representation through their interactions with hip hop culture.I identify how these women see themselves as at odds with the myth of the model minority and other objectifying stereotypes.Western portrayals of Asian women cast them as dragon ladies --fearsome, emasculating femme fatales or lotus blossom babies -modest, obedient and exotic girls next door.Both extremes center a voyeuristic sexual othering of Asian women, seeing their value as intrinsically connected to their exotic sex appeal, and craft an image of Asian women as ornamental objects whose purpose is to serve the pleasure of a white male protagonist.The act of self--representation connects the work of all three of these artists and this thesis examines their positioning as non--Black performers in the hip hop milieu.Through analyses of the artistic careers, musical style and deployment of visual media of Masia One, Rocky Rivera and Awkwafina, this work considers Afro--Asian transnationalism and the cultural exchange between two marginalized groups as an anti--racist form of seeking belonging for immigrants to North American society. Abrg:Les reprsentations occidentales des femmes asiatiques dessinent celles--ci soit selon le modle de la dame dragon -une femme fatale terrorisante de par ses pouvoirs d'masculation ; soit selon celui du nourrisson en fleur -une fille modeste, obissante et exotique.Ces deux extrmes renvoient une seule et mme exclusion voyeuriste et sexuelle des femmes asiatiques ; une conception qui peroit leur valeur comme tant intrinsque leur sex--appeal exotique, et qui construit une image des femmes asiatiques qui s'apparente des objets d'ornements dont le dessein serait de servir les plaisirs d'un protagoniste blanc.En considrant la manire dont trois femmes rappeuses d'origine asiatique -Masia One, Rocky Rivera et Awkwafina -interagissent avec la culture hip--hop et crent des reprsentations d'elles--mmes, j'identifie la faon dont elles se peroivent comme tant en porte----faux avec le mythe de la minorit modle, et autres strotypes qui rduisent la femme l'tat d'objet.L'autoreprsentation lie le travail de ces trois artistes, et ce mmoire examine leur positionnement en tant qu'interprtes non noires dans le milieu du hip--hop. travers l'analyse de la carrire artistique, du style musical et de l'utilisation des mdias visuels que font Masia One, Rocky Rivera et Awkwafina, cet ouvrage examine le transnationalisme afro--asiatique et l'change culturel entre deux groupes marginaliss comme forme antiraciste qui fait appel au sentiment d'appartenance des immigrants dans une socit nord--amricaine.The process and completion of this work would never have taken place without the support and understanding of women at McGill University.Unending thanks to my thesis supervisor Professor Lisa Barg, an inspiring scholar and
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.010 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it