Category: Literary/Artistic Criticism

  • The one-drop aesthetic: How literary formalism reinvented race in the United States Harvard University 2009 233 pages Publication Number: AAT 3365201 ISBN: 9781109254617 Kevin Brian Birmingham A dissertation presented by Kevin Brian Birmingham to The Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the subject of…

  • Re-articulating the New Mestiza Journal of International Women’s Studies Vol 12, #2 (March 2011) Special Issue: Winning and Short-listed Entries from the 2009 Feminist and Women’s Studies Association Annual Student Essay Competition pages 61-74 Zalfa Feghali University of Nottingham This essay provides an overview, critique, and the beginning of a refiguration of Gloria Anzaldúa’s theorization…

  • Mistaken identity The Boston Globe 2005-02-20 Holly Jackson What if a novelist celebrated as a pioneer of African-American women’s literature turned out not to be black at all? IN THE LATE 1980s, scholars of African-American studies carried out the most impressive American literary recovery project to date, excavating and reprinting the works of numerous unjustly…

  • The Mulatto: an unspeakable concept Working Papers on the Web Department of English Studies at Sheffield Hallam University Volume 5 (September 2003) (Racial Disciplines) ISSN: 1478-3703 Julian Murphet, Senior Lecturer of English The University of Sydney The discourse of race has necessarily produced its own supplements; and there has been no more intriguing categorical supplement…

  • Race, Ethnicity, and Difference in a Contemporary Carioca Pop Music Scene Diagonal: Journal of the Center for Iberian and Latin American Music Volume 6 (2010) [Rethinking Race and Ethnicity in Brazilian Music (c1600-Present)] 16 pages Frederick Moehn, Assistant Professor of Music; Affiliate, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center Africana Studies Stony Brook University, State University…

  • Petitioning subjects: miscegenation in Okinawa from 1945 to 1952 and the crisis of sovereignty Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Volume 11, Issue 3 (2010) pages 355-374 DOI: 10.1080/14649373.2010.484172 Annmaria Shimabuku, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature University of California, Riverside This paper tells a story about miscegenation between US military personnel and Okinawan women from 1945-1952, which includes…

  • Retroactive phantasies: discourse, discipline, and the production of race Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture Volume 14, Issue 3 (2008) Pages 333-347 DOI: 10.1080/13504630802088219 Nadine Ehlers, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies Georgetown University The present inquiry considers how the practice and notion of race can be figured as…

  • How to read Michelle Obama Patterns of Prejudice Volume 45, Issue 1 & 2 (Special Issue: Obama and Race) (2011) Pages 95 – 117 DOI: 10.1080/0031322X.2011.563149 Maria Lauret, Reader in American Studies University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom Michelle Obama’s role as the first African American First Lady is more than merely symbolic. Her self-representation…

  • Nadine Ehlers examines the constructions of blackness and whiteness cultivated in the U.S. imaginary and asks, how do individuals become racial subjects?

  • Twelve years on from the hugely acclaimed East Is East comes its sequel, West Is West. Sarfraz Manzoor examines the new directions British-Asian film-makers are taking