Category: Literary/Artistic Criticism

  • Blood-Lines That Waver South: Hybridity, the “South,” and American Bodies Southern Quarterly Volume 41, Number 1 (Fall 2003) pages 39-52 Tace Hedrick, Associate Professor of English University of Florida In the paper I investigate a certain kind of imaginative response, especially on the part of mixed-race artists, to the prevalence of racialized discourses of modernity…

  • Sociology Noir: Studies at the University of Chicago in Loneliness, Marginality and Deviance, 1915–1935 McFarland Publishers 2007 196 pages 7 photos, bibliography, index softcover ISBN: 978-0-7864-2990-5 Roger A. Salerno, Professor of Sociology Pace University, New York Between 1915 and 1935 the University of Chicago was the center for the production of innovative sociological research that…

  • The Sorcery of Color: Identity, Race, and Gender in Brazil Temple University Press November 2006 336 pages 6×9 6 tables Paper EAN: 978-1-59213-351-2; ISBN: 1-59213-351-7 Cloth EAN: 978-1-59213-350-5; ISBN: 1-59213-350-9 Electronic Book EAN: 978-1-59213-352-9 Elisa Larkin Nascimento, Director IPEAFRO Afro-Brazilian Studies and Research Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Originally published in 2003 in Portuguese, The…

  • Kilombismo, Virtual Whiteness, and the Sorcery of Color Journal of Black Studies Volume 34, Number 6 (2004) pages 861-880 DOI: 10.1177/0021934704264009 Elisa Larkin Nascimento Afro-Brazilian Studies and Research Institute This article explores the legacy and current presence of racism in Brazil, particularly their unique expression in the juxtaposition of the miscegenation ideology of nonracism with…

  • An exploration of a great American writer’s abiding concern with the color line

  • The erasure of the Afro element of mestizaje in modern Mexico: the coding of visibly black mestizos according to a white aesthetic in and through the discourse on nation during the cultural phase of the Mexican Revolution, 1920-1968 University of British Columbia September 2001 166 pages Marco Polo Hernández Cuevas, Associate Professor of Spanish North…

  • Living, writing and staging racial hybridity University of British Columbia January 2006 380 pages 37 photographs/illustrations Lisa Michelle La Flamme A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Graduate Studies. Contemporary Canadian literature and drama that features racial hybridity represents the racially hybrid…

  • Unnatural Selections: Eugenics in American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance University of North Carolina Press April 2004 288 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 19 illus., 2 charts, notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-2868-7 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8078-5531-7 Daylanne K. English, Associate Professor of English & Chair Macalester College Challenging conventional constructions of the Harlem Renaissance and American…

  • Jean Toomer and Cane: “Mixed-Blood” Impossibilities Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory Volume 64, Number 4, Winter 2008 E-ISSN: 1558-9595, Print ISSN: 0004-1610 DOI: 10.1353/arq.0.0025 Gino Michael Pellegrini, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California Even though Jean Toomer was black and white, his fascination with miscegenation in…

  • The Impure Imagination: Toward a Critical Hybridity in Latin American Writing University of Minnesota Press 2006 288 pages 5 7⁄8 x 9 Paper ISBN: 0-8166-4786-0; ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4786-6 Cloth ISBN: 0-8166-4785-2; ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4785-9 Joshua Lund, Associate Professor of Hispanic Languages and Literature University of Pittsburgh Challenges conventional thinking about the widely accepted concept of cultural hybridity.…