Category: Literary/Artistic Criticism

  • Resisting the Autobiographical Imperative: Anatole Broyard, Mixed Race and Silence HISTORY & POLITICS ON WEDNESDAY Research Seminars in Modern History & Politics Department of Modern History, Politics, and International Relations Macquarie University Sydney, Australia Room 127, Building W6A 2011-03-23, 12:00-13:15 AEST (Local Time) Maureen Perkins, Associate Professor of History, Anthropology and Sociology Curtin University, Perth,…

  • Race in American Science Fiction Indiana University Press 2011-01-06 paper 286 pages, 6 x 9 paper ISBN-13: 978-0-253-22259-6 cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-253-35553-9 Isiah Lavender, III, Assistant Professor of English University of Central Arkansas Blackness in a white genre Noting that science fiction is characterized by an investment in the proliferation of racial difference, Isiah Lavender III…

  • Passing, Cultural Performance, and Individual Agency: Performative Reflections on Black Masculine Identity Cultural Studies↔Critical Methodologies Volume 4, Number 3 pages 377-404 DOI: 10.1177/1532708603259680 Bryant Keith Alexander, Acting Dean and Professor of Communication Studies California State University, Los Angeles This performative article uses the trope of “passing” as reference to crossing racial identity borders as well…

  • Sci fi offers surprising insights on race The Brandeis Hoot 2009-03-06 Marissa Lainzi Months and months of wading through red ink, volleying e-mails, coordinating, coordinating, and coordinating came to fruition for the Mixed Heritage Club on Friday night, as their much-anticipated speaker, Eric Hamako, gave the talk, “Monsters, Messiahs, or Something Else?” a discussion of…

  • Anglo-Indians in Hollywood, Bollywood and Arthouse Cinema Journal of Intercultural Studies Volume 28, Issue 1 (February 2007) pages 55-68 DOI: 10.1080/07256860601082939 Glenn D’Cruz, Senior Lecturer of Performance Studies Deakin University, Australia Apart from a few disparaging remarks about offensive stereotypes by Anglo-Indian writers and politicians such as Gloria Jean Moore, Frank Anthony and Gillian Hart,…

  • Stepping into the Same River Twice: Internal/External Subversion of the Inside/Outside Dialectic in Alice Walker’s “The Temple of My Familiar” Journal of Bisexuality Volume 2, Issue 2 & 3 (October 2002) pages 53-71 DOI: 10.1300/J159v02n02_04 Sikorski Grace, Associate Professor of English Anne Arundel Community College, Maryland Passing novels, exemplified here by E. Lynn Harris’s Invisible…

  • Surveying the Intersection: Pathology, Secrecy, and the Discourses of Racial and Sexual Identity Journal of Homosexuality Volume 26, Issue 2 & 3 (December 1993) pages 1-20 DOI: 10.1300/J082v26n02_01 Marylynne Diggs “Surveying the Intersection: Pathology, Secrecy, and the Discourses of Racial and Sexual Identity” cautions against the risks of metaphorical imperialism in readings of codified gay…

  • Civilisation, Culture and the Hybrid Self in the work of Robert Ezra Park Journal of Intercultural Studies Volume 27, Issue 4 (November 2006) pages 413-433 DOI: 10.1080/07256860600936911 Vince Marotta, Senior Lecturer in Sociology Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia Contemporary discussions on hybridity in cultural and ethnic studies have overlooked the work of the Chicago sociologist Robert…

  • In exploring the social and cultural history of this distinctly American phenomenon, Bennett moves freely between literature, film, and music, arguing that the passing figure is crucial to our understanding of past and present conceptions of race.

  • Multiple Passings and the Double Death of Langston Hughes Biography Volume 23, Number 4 (Fall 2000) pages 670-693 E-ISSN: 1529-1456 Print ISSN: 0162-4962 DOI: 10.1353/bio.2000.0043 Juda Charles Bennett, Associate Professor of English The College of New Jersey Desire to us Was like a double death, Swift dying Of our mingled breath, Evaporation Of an unknown…