Category: Literary/Artistic Criticism

  • “Not a Moor exactly”: Shakespeare, Serial, and Modern Constructions of Race Shakespeare Quarterly Volume 67, Number 1, 2016 pages 30-50 DOI: 10.1353/shq.2016.0009 Vanessa Corredera, Assistant Professor of English Andrews University, Berrien Springs Michigan As scholars of early modern literature know, Renaissance constructions of alterity were inconsistent and varied. This critical consensus regarding the fluidity of…

  • Race And Radicalism In Puerto Rico: An Interview With Carlos Alamo-Pastrana African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) 2016-08-02 Devyn Spence Benson, Assistant Professor of History and African and African American Studies Louisiana State University This month I interviewed Dr. Carlos Alamo-Pastrana about his new book, Seams of Empire: Race and Radicalism in Puerto Rico and…

  • Puerto Rico’s colonial relationship with the United States and its history of intermixture of native, African, and Spanish inhabitants has prompted inconsistent narratives about race and power in the colonial territory.

  • “If You Is White, You’s Alright. . . .” Stories About Colorism in America Washington University Global Studies Law Review Volume 14, Issue 4: Global Perspectives on Colorism (Symposium Edition) (2015) pages 585-607 Kimberly Jade Norwood, Henry H. Oberschelp Professor of Law; Professor of African & African American Studies Washington University School of Law, St.…

  • The Heart of Whiteness: Interracial Marriage and White Masculinity in American Fiction, 1830-1905 Washington University in St. Louis August 2015 201 pages Lauren M. W. Barbeau A dissertation presented to the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences of Washington University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Building on…

  • Barack Obama and Immigrant Blackness: A Catalyst for Structural Change The International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations: Annual Review Volume 12 (2012) pages 33-42 Kirin Wachter-Grene, Acting Instructor of Literature New York University This essay builds upon an argument I make in my article “Beyond the Binary: Obama’s Hybridity and Post-Racialization” to…

  • Escaping Whiteness The Huffington Post 2015-07-12 Jennifer Delton, Professor of History Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York The exposure of Rachel Dolezal, a white woman passing for black, was just a blip in a year of more urgent stories about race in the United States. Indeed, many expressed annoyance that the story was given so…

  • Obama, America, and the Legacy of James Alan McPherson Literary Hub 2016-08-01 Whitney Terrell Whitney Terrell Remembers His Friend and Mentor The title story of James Alan McPherson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning short story collection Elbow Room opens with an italicized passage: Narrator is unmanageable. Demonstrates a disregard for form bordering on the paranoid . . .…

  • This paper examines the scientific construction of racial differences through the lens of early twentieth-century bioanthropological studies of American Negro skeletal and living population samples.

  • Machado de Assis and Female Characterization: The Novels Bucknell University Press 2015 252 pages ISBN 9781611486209 Earl E. Fitz, Professor of Portuguese, Spanish, and Comparative Literature Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt, Tennessee This book examines the nature and function of the main female characters in the nine novels of Machado de Assis. The basic argument is that…