Category: Literary/Artistic Criticism

  • T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator: A Collection of Writings, 1880-1928 University Press of Florida 2008-06-15 342 pages 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-3232-0 Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-3548-2 Shawn Leigh Alexander, Associate Professor of African-American Studies University of Kansas Born into slavery, T. Thomas Fortune was known as the dean of African American journalism…

  • The Ambiguous and the Mundane: Racial Performance and Asian Americans Contemporary Literature Volume 57, Number 2, Summer 2016 pages 292-300 Josephine D. Lee, Professor of English and Asian American University of Minnesota Jennifer Ann Ho, Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture. New Brunswick, NJ, and London: Rutgers University Press, 2015. xi + 215 pp. $90.00…

  • The canary in the post-racial coal mine Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 2013 35 pages DOI: 10.7282/T30Z71WG Roxanne Huertas A Capstone Project submitted to the Graduate School-Camden Rutgers-The State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Liberal Studies The American mulatto has been employed by…

  • Herriman: Cartoonist who equalled Cervantes The Telegraph 2007-07-07 Sarah Boxer Sarah Boxer marvels at the world of George Herriman, the creator of the ludicrously imaginative comic strip Krazy Kat We call him “Cat,” We call him “Crazy” yet is he neither. – George Herriman on the title character of Krazy Kat There is no comic…

  • Surrealism, Non-Normative Sexualities, and Racial Identities in Popular Culture: the Case of the Newspaper Comic Strip Krazy Kat Revista Comunicación Number 11, Volume 11 (2013) pages 51-66 Jesus Jiménez-Varea, Professor University of Seville, Seville, Spain In Krazy Kat, George Herriman painted with humorous strokes the endless variations of a sexual pantomime that challenged the boundaries…

  • Imperfect Unions: Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction by Diana Rebekkah Paulin (review) [Ings] African American Review Volume 47, Number 1, Spring 2014 Katharine Nicholson Ings, Associate Professor of English Manchester College, North Manchester, Indiana Diana Rebekkah Paulin. Imperfect Unions: Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2012. 315…

  • CSER W4701 Troubling the Color: Passing, Inter-racial Sex, and Ethnic Ambiguity. Barnard College New York, New York 2016-17 Catalogue Karl Jacoby, Professor of History Columbia University, New York, New York Passing, remarked W.E.B. Du Bois in 1929, “is a petty, silly matter of no real importance which another generation will comprehend with great difficulty.”  Yet passing and…

  • It’s the summer of 1998 and I’m at the mall with my mom and my sister Anna, who has just turned 5. I’m 7. Anna and I are cranky from being too hot, then too cold, then too bored. We keep touching things we are not supposed to touch, and by the time Mom drags…

  • Paulette Ramsay’s study analyses cultural and literary material produced by Afro-Mexicans on the Costa Chica de Guerrero y Oaxaca, Mexico, to undermine and overturn claims of mestizaje or Mexican homogeneity.

  • Kanye Collaborator Vanessa Beecroft Reveals A Common Misconception About Race Attn: 2016-08-09 Tricia Tongco Vanessa Beecroft is best known as the artist who has collaborated with Kanye West on several of the rapper’s most noteworthy visuals, from the “Runaway” mini-movie to the Yeezy Season 3 fashion show. But thanks to a recently published profile in…