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  • The Stones of the Village

    The Stones of the Village The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson Current copyright holder unknown. Due diligence has been exercised by the National Humanities Center to identify the copyright holder. ca. 1900-1910 19 pages Alice Dunbar-Nelson Victor Grabért strode down the one, wide, tree-shaded street of the village, his heart throbbing with a bitterness and anger…

  • “The Force, the Fire and the Artistic Touch”of Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s “The Stones of the Village”

    “The Force, the Fire and the Artistic Touch”of Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s “The Stones of the Village” Journal of the Short Story in English Number 54, Spring 2010 Michael Tritt Department of English Marianopolis College, Montréal Ambiguous of race they stand, By one disowned, scorned of another, Not knowing where to stretch a hand, And cry, ‘My…

  • Reading Boddo’s Body: Crossing the Borders of Race and Sexuality in Whitman’s “Half-Breed”

    Reading Boddo’s Body: Crossing the Borders of Race and Sexuality in Whitman’s “Half-Breed” Walt Whitman Quarterly Review Volume 22, Number 2 (Fall 2004) pages 87-107 Thomas C. Gannon, Associate Professor of English University of Nebraska, Lincoln Offers an extended cultural reading of Whitman’s early story “The Half-Breed,” focusing on psychosexual and post-colonial implications of the…

  • A Textual Analysis of Barack Obama’s Campaign Discourse Regarding His Race

    A Textual Analysis of Barack Obama’s Campaign Discourse Regarding His Race Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana April 2011 44 pages Andrea Dawn Andrews This study is a textual analysis of Barack Obama’s nine most noteworthy speeches from 2004 to 2009 during his rise to prominence and presidential campaign. Because Obama was considered an inspiring speaker and…

  • Educational Inequality by Race in Brazil, 1982–2007: Structural Changes and Shifts in Racial Classification

    Educational Inequality by Race in Brazil, 1982–2007: Structural Changes and Shifts in Racial Classification Demography Volume 49, Number 1 (February 2012) pages 337-358 DOI: 10.1007/s13524-011-0084-6 Leticia J. Marteleto, Assistant Professor of Sociology Population Research Center University of Texas, Austin Despite overwhelming improvements in educational levels and opportunity during the past three decades, educational disadvantages associated…

  • Educational Disadvantages Associated with Race Still Persist in Brazil Despite Improvements, New Study Shows

    Educational Disadvantages Associated with Race Still Persist in Brazil Despite Improvements, New Study Shows University of Texas, Austin Department of Sociology 2012-01-19 Despite notable improvements in educational levels and opportunity during the past three decades, disadvantages associated with race still persist in Brazil, according to new research at The University of Texas at Austin. Although…

  • Clara como el Agua

    Clara como el Agua PBS Online Film Festival 2012-03-05 Duration: 00:12:20 Fernanda Rossi, Director She’s white. She’s also black. Mostly, she’s rejected. Clara is the only light-skinned and clear-eyed girl in an all-black neighborhood in Puerto Rico. The children tease her endlessly, telling her that her father is some “gringo” tourist with whom her mother…

  • RTF 386 – Beyond Binaries: Mixed Race Representation and Critical Theory

    RTF 386 – Beyond Binaries: Mixed Race Representation and Critical Theory University of Texas, Austin Spring 2012 Mary Beltrán, Associate Professor of Media Studies This graduate seminar surveys historical and critical and cultural studies scholarship on the evolution of mixed race in U.S. film and media culture. American histories, cultures, and identities have traditionally been…

  • Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism (review)

    Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism (review) Callaloo Volume 34, Number 1 (Winter 2011) pages 208-210 E-ISSN: 1080-6512; Print ISSN: 0161-2492 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2011.0007 Kirin Wachter-Grene University of Washington, Seattle Jared Sexton. Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. Anxieties about American multiracial identity and practices, known…

  • In the Place of Clare Kendry: A Gothic Reading of Race and Sexuality in Nella Larsen’s Passing

    In the Place of Clare Kendry: A Gothic Reading of Race and Sexuality in Nella Larsen’s Passing Callaloo Volume 34, Number 1, Winter 2011 pages 143-157 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2011.0024 Johanna M. Wagner Maastricht University Feeling her colour heighten under the continued inspection, she slid her eyes down. What, she wondered, could be the reason for such…