Category: Literary/Artistic Criticism

  • Being Eurasian: Memories Across Racial Divides University of Washington Press 2004 296 pages 6″ x 9″ Paperback (9789622096714) Hardcover (9789622096707) Vicky Lee Hong Kong Baptist University What was it like being a Eurasian in colonial Hong Kong? How is the notion of Eurasianness remembered in some Hong Kong memoirs? Being Eurasian is a description and…

  • North of America: Racial hybridity and Canada’s (non)place in inter-American discourse Comparative American Studies: An International Journal Volume 3, Number 1 (March 2005) pages 79-88 DOI: 10.1177/1477570005050951 Albert Braz, Associate Professor of English University of Alberta, Canada Canada is one of the largest countries in the Americas, indeed the world. Yet, for such a territorial…

  • Hybridity in Cooper, Mitchell and Randall: Erasures, Rewritings, and American Historical Mythology McGill University, Montreal Department of English August, 2004 86 pages Marie Thormodsgard Submitted in partial fulfillment for a Masters degree in English This thesis starts with an overview of the historical record tied to the birth of a new nation studied by Alexis…

  • Passings That Pass in America: Crossing Over and Coming Back to Tell About It The History Teacher Volume 40, Number 4 (August 2007) 32 paragraphs Donald Reid, Professor of History University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill TEMPORARILY PASSING as an other is a universal fantasy and a not uncommon practice. From Arab potentates dressed as…

  • ASNAMST 173S: Transcultural and Multiethnic Lives: Contexts, Controversies, and Challenges (AFRICAAM 173S, CSRE 173S) Stanford University Spring 2011 Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu Lived experience of people who dwell in the border world of race and nation where they negotiate transcultural and multiethnic identities and politics. Comparative, historical, and global contexts such as family and class. Controversies, such…

  • AAS 4570 – Passing in African-American Imagination University of Virginia The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American & African Studies Spring 2011 Alisha Gaines, Post-Doctoral Fellow (English) Duke University This course considers the canonical African American literary tradition and popular culture texts that think through the boundaries of blackness and identity through the organizing trope…

  • A Critical Race Theory Approach to Understanding Cinematic Representations of the Mixed Race Experience Center for Race & Gender University of California, Berkeley 2010-12-08 10/5/2010 CRG Forum: Mixed Race/Mixed Space in Media Culture & Militarized Zones “A Critical Race Theory Approach to Understanding Cinematic Representations of the Mixed Race Experience” Kevin Escudero, Ethnic Studies This…

  • ‘You Can Get Lost in Cape Town’: Transculturation and Dislocation in Zoë Wicomb’s Literary Works Afroeuropa: Journal of Afroeuropean Studies Volume 2, Number 3 (2008) 10 pages María Jesús López Sánchez-Vizcaíno, Professor of English University of Córdoba In Zoë Wicomb’s novels and short stories, main characters tend to share Wicomb’s coloured condition—mixed-race identity as defined…

  • Multiethnic Children Portrayed in Children’s Picture Books Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal Volume 17, Number 4, (August 2000) pages 305-317 DOI: 10.1023/A:1007550124043 Erin Michelle Cole Department of Social Work University of Wyoming Deborah P. Valentine, Director and Professor of Social Work Colorado State University The portrayal of multiethnic children in picture books provides a…

  • Obamafiction for Children: Imagining the Forty-Fourth U.S. President Children’s Literature Association Quarterly Volume 35, Number 4 (Winter 2010) E-ISSN: 1553-1201 Print ISSN: 0885-0429 pages 334-356 Philip Nel, Professor of English Kansas State University In a column published five days after the 2008 election, journalist Jason Whitlock said of the president-elect’s life: “His is a tale…