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I'd Just as Soon Kiss a Wookiee offers a unique approach to understanding interracial intimacies and race relations through the lens of the Star Wars narratives, production, and fandoms. Greg Carter provides insight, reflection, and a pathway to further thinking on race relations as well as conservative backlashes rooted in white supremacy in the US public sphere. Ultimately, Carter proves how valuable the world of Star Wars is as an object of analysis for understanding US racial systems.--Jasmine Mitchell, Brooklyn College, author of Imagining the Mulatta: Blackness in U.S. and Brazilian Media A meaningful resource for discussing contemporary science fiction, fantasy, and fan cultures, I'd Just as Soon Kiss a Wookiee will be of interest to Star Wars fans inside and outside of academia. Through a paradigm that blends fan scholarship and critical mixed-race studies, Greg Carter drawsStar Wars into conversation with historical precedents and contemporaneous developments in culture that demonstrate the franchise's place in a wider media system.--andré m. carrington, University of California, Riverside, author of Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction

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