Aliens: Narrating U.S. Global Identity Through Transnational Adoption and Interracial Marriage inBattlestar Galactica

Abstract

Science fiction rewrites the conflict between self and Other as encounters between human and alien, providing an ideal generic cover for an exploration of the evolving role of the U.S. globally. The sci-fi television series, Battlestar Galactica, depicts the two most familiar tropes of the Asian interracial family, the transnationally adopted Asian girl and the marriage of an Asian woman and a white man, reimagined as an interracial and interspecies family. Both kinds of multiracial families illustrate how metaphorical representations of U.S./Asian relations of have altered over time to rationalize the disjuncture between a celebratory rhetoric of globalization and U.S. multiculturalism and the neo colonial flow of Asian female labor.

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