Darrell Hamamoto
{{Short description|American academic}}
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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/presenting-our-retirees-class-2017-18/|title = Presenting Our Retirees, Class of 2017-18|date = 20 August 2018}}
Education
Hamamoto received his education at CSU Long Beach, Bowling Green State University and UC Irvine.{{Cite web |url=http://asa.ucdavis.edu/faculty_hamamoto.shtml |title=Asian American Studies, UC Davis |access-date=2008-12-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090616065225/http://asa.ucdavis.edu/faculty_hamamoto.shtml |archive-date=2009-06-16 |url-status=dead }}
Influential works
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.{{cite web | url=http://daviswiki.org/Darrell_Hamamoto | title=Darrell Hamamoto - Davis - LocalWiki }} His work has generated controversy for producing porn movies as research.[https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117923964.html?categoryid=31&cs=1 Masters of the Pillow] Robert Koehler, May 26, 2004 Variety.com[http://archive.salon.com/sex/feature/2003/10/10/asian/print.html Yellow Porn] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080514045641/http://archive.salon.com/sex/feature/2003/10/10/asian/print.html |date=2008-05-14 }} Harry Mok, October 10, 2003 Salon.com[http://www-dateline.ucdavis.edu/dl_detail.lasso?id=6906Hamamoto Research Stirs Interest] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607212612/http://www-dateline.ucdavis.edu/dl_detail.lasso?id=6906Hamamoto |date=2011-06-07 }} Susanne Rockwell, November 7, 2003 University of California Davis, Faculty Dateline News[http://www.calstate.edu/pa/clips2003/november/3nov/porn.shtml Porn as commentary Film on Asian issues grabs attention, stirs debate] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101104022250/http://www.calstate.edu/pa/clips2003/november/3nov/porn.shtml |date=2010-11-04 }} Dorothy Korber, November 3, 2003 - Sacramento Bee
Hamamoto was featured in both The Daily Show{{cite web |url=http://www.thedailyshow.com/ |title=Home |website=thedailyshow.com}} and Masters of the Pillow,{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0461993/|title = Masters of the Pillow|website = IMDb}} which is a documentary about Skin on Skin.
Conspiracy Theories
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.{{Cite news|date=2018-08-24|title=Infowars host: Hurricane threatening Hawaii has been split in two by energy beam shot from Antarctica|language=en|work=Media Matters for America|url=https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/08/24/infowars-host-hurricane-threatening-hawaii-has-been-split-two-energy-beam-shot-antarctica-possibly/221094|access-date=2018-09-21}} Professor Hamamoto also made a 2014 appearance on the Red Ice Radio program.
Books
- 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
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Category:American academics of Japanese descent
Category:American orientalists
Category:American writers of Japanese descent
Category:Bowling Green State University alumni
Category:California State University, Long Beach alumni
Category:East Asian studies scholars
Category:University of California, Davis faculty