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  • City’s black founding father Decator Daily Decatur, Alabama 2010-04-19 Deangelo McDaniel, Staff Writer Minister, historian reconstructing life of ex-slave who became successful farmer First in a two-part series The Rev. Wylheme Ragland would like to spend one day with Robert Murphy. So would local historian Peggy Allen Towns. “Just one day,” Ragland said emphatically. “Just…

  • “Our Ancestors came from many Bloods”. Gendered Narrations of a Hybrid Nation Lusotopie Volume 12, Issue 1 (2005) pages 217-232 DOI: 10.1163/176830805774719728 Isabel P.B. Fêo Rodrigues, Professor of Anthropology University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth Narratives of mixed ancestry in Cape Verde use gender as common denominator in the weaving of a Creole nation. These narratives may…

  • Black Czech writer Zmeškal won EU Prize for Literature in 2011 Afro-Europe 2012-04-08 Czech writer Tomáš Zmeškal, who was born as the son of a Congolese father and a Czech mother in Prague, won the European Union Prize for Literature in 2011 for his debut novel “Love Letter in Cuneiform Script” (Milostný Dopis Klínovým Písmem)…

  • Eurasian Women as Tawa’if Singers and Recording Artists: Entertainment and Identity-making in Colonial India African and Asian Studies Volume 8, Issue 3 (2009) pages 268-287 DOI: 10.1163/156921009X458118 Shweta Sachdeva Jha, Assistant Professor of English Miranda House, University College for Women, University of Delhi Scholarship on Eurasians has often addressed issues of migration, collective identity and…

  • Racial Classification in Assisted Reproduction Yale Law Journal Volume 118, Issue 8 (June 2009) pages 1844-1898 Dov Fox, Academic Law Research Fellow Georgetown University Law Center This Note considers the moral status of practices that facilitate parental selection of sperm donors according to race. Arguments about intentions and consequences cannot convincingly explain the race-conscious design…

  • Traveling with Her Mother’s Tastes: The Negotiation of Gender, Race, and Location in “Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands” Signs Volume 26, Number 4, Globalization and Gender (Summer, 2001) pages 949-981 Sandra Gunning, Professor of English, Afroamerican and African Studies and Women’s Studies University of Michigan The autobiography Wonderful Adventuers of Mrs. Seacole…

  • Creole Performance in Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands Gender & History Volume 15, Issue 3, November 2003 pages 487–506 DOI: 10.1111/j.0953-5233.2003.00317.x Rhonda Frederick, Associate Professor of African & African Diaspora Studies Program Boston College Mary Seacole’s autobiography has been read as a feminist performance as well as a paradigmatic Victorian travel narrative.…

  • Mahtani wins prestigious geography award Inside UTSC University of Toronto, Scarborough 2012-03-29 Minelle Mahtani won the Glenda Laws Award for geography, which is given to early and mid-career scholars for outstanding contributions to geographical research on social issues.   It is administered by the Association of American Geographers, and endorsed by the Institute of Australian…

  • The idea of nature in “Benito Cereno.” Studies in Short Fiction Spring, 1993 Terry J. Martin Although many critics have analyzed specific natural images in Melville’s Benito Cereno, no one has yet focused exclusively on the role of nature in the novella, nor looked fully at its problematic relation to Delano. Such an examination can…

  • Hitting the Right Rhythm to Tell Marley’s Story The New York Times 2012-04-06 John Anderson Of all the friends, lovers, relatives and Rastas that the director Kevin Macdonald wrangled into his new documentary, “Marley,” one of his favorite finds was Dudley Sibley, a onetime recording artist and the janitor at the Jamaican recording studio where…