Category: Articles

  • Race and Ethnicity in “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man” and “The Rise of David Levinsky”: The Performative Difference MELUS Volume 29, Numbers 3/4, (Autumn-Winter, 2004), Pedagody, Canon, Context: Toward a Redefinition of Ethnic American Literary Studies pages 307-321 Catherine Rottenberg, Assistant Professor Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics and the Gender Studies Program Ben-Gurion…

  • The Well-Being of Children Living With Interethnic Parents: Are They at a Disadvantage? Journal of Family Issues Volume 33, Number 7 (July 2012) pages 898-919 DOI: 10.1177/0192513X11420938 Jennifer Pearce-Morris Department of Sociology Pennsylvania State University Valarie King, Professor of Sociology, Demography, and Human Development & Family Studies Director Pennsylvania State University An increasing number of…

  • A copy of the photo hangs in the Philadelphia family’s living room with several others taken that day. Mr. Philadelphia, now in Afghanistan for the State Department, said: “It’s important for black children to see a black man as president. You can believe that any position is possible to achieve if you see a black…

  • “Still Seeking for Something”: The Unspeakable (Loss) in “Passing” by Nella Larsen Wagadu Volume 6, 2008, Special Issue: Women’s Activism for Gender Equality in Africa 16 pages Agnieszka Mrozik The paper analyzes Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929) through the lens of the theory of melancholy from Freud to Butler. Examining the dynamic relationship between Irene Redfield…

  • Breaking the Race Barrier 360 Magazine Ithica College 2012-05-02 Danielle Torres “I’m Puerto Rican.” That’s usually what I say when people ask a second time where I am from. The first time someone asks me that question I usually say, “I’m from New York.” Then the person rephrases the question, “What are you? What is…

  • The histories of most New England states view blacks as a strange, foreign people enslaved in southern states, whom New Englanders rescued first by forming colonization and abolitionist societies and later by fighting a Civil War to free them. The existence of a black population in New England as early as the seventeenth century has…

  • The Hypocrisy of the “Pigmentocracy” Trotter Review Volume 7, Issue 2 (1993) A Special Issue on the Political and Social Relations Between Communities of Color Article 9 4 pages Lucas Rivera The City Sun The following article is excerpted and reprinted with permission of the author and was originally published in two parts in the…

  • Passing: Race, Identification and Desire Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts Volume 45,  Number 4 (Fall 2003) pages 435-52 Catherine Rottenberg, Assistant Professor Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics and the Gender Studies Program Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel IN THE SECOND HALF of the nineteenth century, African-American writers such as William Wells Brown…

  • Black Mormons and the Politics of Identity The New York Times 2012-05-22 Susan Saulny SALT LAKE CITY — When Marguerite Driessen, a professor here, entered Brigham Young University in the early 1980s, she was the first black person many Mormon students had ever met, and she spent a good bit of her college time debunking…

  • Bordering Community: Reclaiming Ambiguity as a Transgressive Landscape of Knowledge Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work Volume 27, Number 2 (May 2012) pages 167-179 DOI: 10.1177/0886109912443957 Kimberly D. Hudson School of Social Work University of Washington, Seattle Critically investigating the concept of community, this article explores some of the ideological and epistemological frameworks that…