Category: Literary/Artistic Criticism

  • Dr. Seuss is one of the most beloved children’s authors in America. He also has a rather mixed record on issues of race and diversity.

  • “These narratives of racial passing have risen from the dead” Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey May 2015 275 pages DOI: 10.7282/T38G8NJG Donavan L. Ramon Ph.D. Dissertation Instead of concurring with most critics that racial passing literature reached its apex during the Harlem Renaissance, this project highlights its persistence, as evidenced in the texts…

  • Times Fluid, Mobile and Ambivalent: Constructing Racial & Personal Identity in James McBride’s The Color of Water International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature Volume 4, Number 5 (2015) pages 63-71 DOI: 10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.4n.5p.63 Yuan-Chin Chang Department of Applied English Studies China University of Technology, Wunshan District, Taipei City 116, Taiwan James McBride’s memoir The…

  • Podcast #75: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Zadie Smith on Race, Writing, and Relationships The NYPL Podcast The New York Public Library New York, New York 2015-08-25 Tracy O’Neill, Social Media Curator There are few authors as smart, powerful, and visionary as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Zadie Smith. Adichie’s Americanah won the 2013 National Book Critics…

  • Moor, Mulata, Mulatta: Sentimentalism, Racialization, and Benevolent Imperialism in Mary Peabody Mann’s Juanita J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Volume 2, Number 2, Fall 2014 pages 301-329 DOI: 10.1353/jnc.2014.0021 Maria A. Windell, Assistant Professor of English University of Colorado, Boulder “Moor, Mulata, Mulatta” argues that Mary Peabody Mann’s Juanita (1887) imports U.S. sentimental abolitionism to…

  • ETHS 306 : Politics of Mixed Racial Identity Metropolitan State University, Saint Paul, Minnesota 2002-08-24 to Present This course focuses on the phenomenon of mixed race descent in the United States. For comparative purposes, the course also explores the topic in relation to other nations. Included in the course are historical perspectives, and exploration of…

  • Pauline Hopkins and the Death of the Tragic Mulatta JoAnn Pavletich, Associate Professor of English University of Houston, Houston, Texas Callaloo Volume 38, Number 3, Summer 2015 pages 647-663 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2015.0103 Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, turn-of-the-century intellectual, editor of the Colored American Magazine, and author of essays, plays, short stories, and four complex novels written in…

  • Poitier Revisited: Reconsidering a Black Icon in the Obama Age Bloomsbury Publishing 2015-01-15 288 pages 25 bw illus 229 x 152 mm Hardback ISBN: 9781623564919 Edited by: Ian Gregory Strachan, Associate Professor of English College of The Bahamas Mia Mask, Associate Professor of Film Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York Sidney Poitier remains one of the…

  • Beyond Windrush: Rethinking Postwar Anglophone Caribbean Literature University Press of Mississippi 2015-07-10 234 pages 1 b&w illustration, 3 maps, introduction, epilogue, index 6 x 9 inches Hardcover ISBN:9781628464757 Edited by: Dillon Brown, Associate Professor of English and African and African American Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri Leah Reade Rosenberg, Associate Professor of English University of…

  • A study of how notions of place and race inform the identities and performances of musicians in contemporary Cuba