Category: Literary/Artistic Criticism

  • “A Being of a New World:” The Ambiguity of Mixed Blood in Pauline Johnson’s “My Mother” MELUS Volume 27, Number 3, Native American Literature (Autumn, 2002) pages 43-56 Margo Lukens, Associate Professor of English University of Maine Studying mixed-blood/Métis history reveals that an overwhelming number of unions between Europeans and Native people happened between a…

  • French colonial and post-colonial hybridity: condition métisse Journal of European Studies Volume 28, Number 1 (1998) pages 103-120 DOI: 10.1177/004724419802800108 Dina Sherzer, Professor Emeritus of French and Italian and Comparative Literature The University of Texas, Austin One of the central issues which shapes and agitates contemporary France, as well as other European countries, is that…

  • Deconstructing the Visual: The Diasporic Hybridity of Asian and Eurasian Female Images Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context Australian National University Issue 8, October 2002 45 paragraphs ISSN 1440 9151 Julie Matthews, Associate Professor and Director of Research Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia Introduction…

  • Grave endings: the representation of passing Austrailian Humanities Review Issue 23 (September 2001) Monique Rooney, Lecturer and Honours Convenor College of Arts and Social Sciences Austrailian National University At the 2000 Academy Awards, Hilary Swank won the award of “Best Actress” for her role as Teena Brandon/Brandon Teena in Kimberley Peirce’s Boys Don’t Cry (2000).…

  • In Their Own Words with Michele Elam The Human Experience: inside the humanities at Stanford University 2011-04-15 Michele Elam, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English and Olivier Nomellini Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education Stanford University  In this installment of “In Their Own Words” English professor Michele Elam discusses her latest research, which…

  • True Blood: The Vampire as a Multiracial Critique on Post-Race Ideology Journal of Dracula Studies Number 12 (2010) 19 pages Nicole Myoshi Rabin, Instructor of Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies Emerson College, Boston. Massachusetts In the Western consciousness there has been a long tradition of the associations between race and evil.  According to Celia R.…

  • Transcending Blackness in the 21st Century, or How Can I Be Like Barack Obama? Global Studies: A Member of the International Instutute University of Wisconsin, Madison Multiracial Tales and Multicultural Discourses 494 Van Hise Hall 2011-04-18, 17:30 CDT (Local Time) Ralina L. Joseph, Assistant Professor of Communications University of Washington As “postrace” is the buzzword…

  • The Family Changes Colour: Interracial Families in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema Screen Volume 43 Issue 3 (Autumn 2002) pages 271-292 DOI: 10.1093/screen/43.3.271 Nicola J. Evans, Lecturer of Media and Cultural Studies University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia How profound the hatred, how deep the bigotry… that wakens in this image of black life blooming within…

  • Representation of Coloured Identity in Selected Visual Texts about Westbury, Johannesburg University of the Witwatersrand December 2006 132 pages Phyllis D. Dannhauser A research report submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (Dramatic Art). In post-apartheid South Africa, Coloured…

  • Race and Mixed Race University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts American Culture AMCULT 311 –  Topics in Ethnic Studies Section 001 Fall 2011 Evelyn Azeeza Alsultany, Assistant Professor of American Culture This course examines how conceptions of race and mixed race have been historically shaped through law, science, and popular culture.…