Race and Ethnicity

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Golden M. Owens
Assistant Professor

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Graduate Student-Organized: Crisis Alarm: Conversations Across Asian Cinema and Media (March 20, 2026)
Congratulations to our Simpson Center Award Winners! (January 4, 2026)
New Faculty Publications on Robots, Media Infrastructure, and "Alligator Alcatraz" (December 19, 2025)

Related Research

Diana Flores Ruíz, “Swamp Slop and Fake Moats: On the AI Mediation of Alligator Alcatraz” Flow: A Critical Forum on Media and Culture 32, no 2, December 1, 2025
Ruíz, Diana Flores. "Split Rein or Whip? On the Production of Infrastructural Integrity at the US-Mexico Border." JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 65, no. 1 (2025): 162-168. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cj.2025.a973995.
Owens, Golden. “Robotic Slaves and Where to Find Them: Racial(ized) Servitude in The Jetsons.” Flow 32, no. 1 (2025). https://www.flowjournal.org/2025/10/robotic-slaves-and-where-to-find-them-racialized-servitude-in-the-jetsonsgolden-m-owens-university-of-washington/.
Mal Ahern and Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, eds, In Focus: Images and (Infra)structures, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 65, no. 1 (Fall 2025), 156-201.
Owens, Golden M. “From Maid to Machine: Her, Hegemony, and the Twenty-First-Century Mammy.” The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 64, no. 5 (2025). https://doi.org/10.3998/jcms.18261332.0064.513.
Diana Flores Ruíz; Review: Border Tunnels: A Media Theory of the U.S.–Mexico Underground, by Juan Llamas-Rodriguez. Film Quarterly 1 June 2024; 77 (4): 103–104. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2024.77.4.103
Diana Flores Ruíz; Rematerialization: Anticolonial Collective Memory through Latinx Digital Art. Feminist Media Histories 1 October 2024; 10 (4): 10–31. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2024.10.4.10
Ruíz, Diana Flores. "Reference Rot: Digital Decay, White Supremacy, and Endangering Data." JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 63, no. 3 (2024): 190-196. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cj.2024.a927695.
Owens, Golden. “‘Hey Google, Talk Like Issa’: Black Voiced Digital Assistants and the Reshaping of Racial Labor.” Sounding Out!, June 5, 2023. https://soundstudiesblog.com/2023/06/05/google-talk-like-issa-black-voiced-digital-assistants-and-the-reshaping-of-racial-labor/.
“Virtuous Viewing” Film Criticism, 46:1 (June 2022)