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136 Popular Culture Review Keiko Nitta, Assistant Professor of Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan, earned her Ph.D. in English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1999. She has published essays on Toni Morrison andTheresa Hak Kyung Cha, and on theories of multiculturalism both in Japan and in the United States. Renford Reese is Assistant Professor in the Political Science department of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He is also the founder and Director of the Colorful Flags Program, a multi-ethnic human relations program that serves approximately 130,00 K -12 students in 17 school districts in California. Charlene Regester is a Professor in the department of Afro-American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Kin Wai Michael Siu teaches Design Criticism and Theory in the School of Design at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is the Fellow of the College of Preceptors, a Chartered Designer and Chartered Engineer. His research interests are design and culture, industrial design, and urban design research and studies. Matt Stolick (Ph.D., University of Tennessee-Knoxville) is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Findlay (OH). His interests include applied ethics (sports ethics, medical ethics) and existentialism, as well as the work of Kierkegaard, Spinoza, and Aristotle. Ross Talarico has been awarded the Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize from the Modem Language Association for his book Spreading the Word: Po