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

Hamamoto received his education at CSU Long Beach, Bowling Green State University and UC Irvine.[2]

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.[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

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
  • 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
  1. "Presenting Our Retirees, Class of 2017-18". 20 August 2018.
  2. "Asian American Studies, UC Davis". Archived from the original on 2009-06-16. Retrieved 2008-12-31.
  3. "Darrell Hamamoto - Davis - LocalWiki".
  4. Masters of the Pillow Robert Koehler, May 26, 2004 Variety.com
  5. Yellow Porn Archived 2008-05-14 at the Wayback Machine Harry Mok, October 10, 2003 Salon.com
  6. Research Stirs Interest Archived 2011-06-07 at the Wayback Machine Susanne Rockwell, November 7, 2003 University of California Davis, Faculty Dateline News
  7. Porn as commentary Film on Asian issues grabs attention, stirs debate Dorothy Korber, November 3, 2003 - Sacramento Bee
  8. "Home". thedailyshow.com.
  9. "Masters of the Pillow". IMDb.
  10. "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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