Category: United Kingdom

  • Coloring History and Mixing Race in Levina Urbino’s ‘Sunshine in the Palace and Cottage’ and Louise Heaven’s ‘In Bonds’ Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers Volume 24, Number 2 (2007) E-ISSN: 1534-0643, Print ISSN: 0748-4321 DOI: 10.1353/leg.2007.0018 Eric Gardner, Professor of English Saginaw Valley State University, Michigan While the figure of the “tragic mulatta”…

  • Becoming Modern Racialized Subjects: Detours through our pasts to produce ourselves anew Cultural Studies Volume 23, Number 4 (July 2009) pages 624-657 DOI: 10.1080/09502380902950948 Hazel V. Carby, Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies Yale University This essay is a close engagement with the work of Stuart Hall which has been…

  • Our obsession with classification: What are the implications to mixed race studies? 2009-02-11 3 pages Marcia Yumi Lise Whether it is by gender, sex, race, ethnicity, culture, religion, age, or nationality, in contemporary society, we are immensely preoccupied by classifying people into categories. Social scientists collect and produce data to utilise it for analysis. We…

  • Previous work discussing Black beauty has tended to concentrate on Black women’s search for white beauty as a consequence of racialization. Without denying either the continuation of such aesthetics or their enduring power, this book uncovers the cracks in this hegemonic Black beauty.

  • Jackie Kay – Red Dust Road Launch Night Glasgow Women’s Library 81 Parnie Street, Glasgow, Scotland Wednesday 2010-06-23, 19:00 BST Red Dust Road Exclusive Launch Jackie Kay is known and loved for her fiction – a novel, and short stories -, for her poetry and her plays. In this revelatory and redemptive book, with characteristic…

  • Borders Book Festival: Where Words Come Alive—Jackie Kay Harmony Marquee Melrose, Scotland 2010-06-20, 20:30 BST (Local Time) Published only days before the festival, Red Dust Road is Jackie Kay’s autobiographical journey.  Adopted by warm-spirited Scottish communists, Jackie has never thought of anyone else as her ‘real’ parents, but meeting her birth father and mother was…

  • ‘What makes us who we are? My adoption is a story that has happened to me. I couldn’t make it up.’

  • Jackie Kay’s Representation of ‘The Broons’: Scotland’s Happy Family eSharp Special Issue: Spinning Scotland: Exploring Literary and Cultural Perspectives (2009) pages 109-143 ISSN: 1742-4542 Mª del Coral Calvo Maturana Universidad de Granada This paper focuses on the contemporary Scottish poet Jackie Kay and the comic strip ‘The Broons’ by studying Jackie Kay’s representation of this…

  • The Poet as Cultural Dentist: Ethnicity in the Poetry of Jackie Kay Theory and Practice in English Studies 4 (2005) Proceedings from the Eighth Conference of British, American and Canadian Studies. Brno: Masarykova Univerzita pages 63-67 Pavlína Hácová, Philosophical Faculty Palacky University, Olomouc The acclaimed British poet Jackie Kay (born 1961) belongs to the colourful…

  • Jackie Kay (Review of Darling) Aesthetica Magazine Issue 19 (2007-10-01) page 10 Rachel Hazelwood Jackie Kay is one of the most prolific and insightful poets currently writing in the UK today. At a time when too many people frequently describe the form as being “in decline” and thought of as an “exclusive club”, Kay writes…