Category: Articles

  • Scouting the City for Her Characters The New York Times 2011-08-19 John Leland A Summer afternoon in Chelsea, and Sarah Jones was on a recon mission, searching for… she did not know what, exactly. An accent, for starters. An ethnic wild card. “Hybridity,” she said, using a word she uses often to describe her field…

  • The Place of Miscegenation Laws within Historical Scholarship about Slavery The Literary Lawyer: A Forum for the Legal and Literary Communities 2011-05-17 Allen Porter Mendenhall The following post appeared at The Literary Table. Miscegenation laws, also known as anti-miscegenation laws, increasingly have attracted the attention of scholars of slavery over the last half-century. Scholarship on…

  • ‘The suffering black male body and the threatened white female body’: ambiguous bodies in Candyman The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies Issue 9, February 2011 Lucy Fife Donaldson University of Reading Race is not a subject often directly encountered in the horror film, despite the highly charged conflict of black and white constituting…

  • Somewhere between Jim Crow & Post-Racialism: Reflections on the Racial Divide in America Today Dædalus, the Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences Volume 140, Number 2, Spring 2011, Race, Inequality & Culture, Volume 2 pages 11-36 Lawrence D. Bobo, W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences Harvard University In…

  • Science must not invent new myths about race London Evening Standard 2009-11-16 Lindsay Johns Science and race have never been easy bedfellows. Since Victorian times, when Western scientific advancement was used as an intellectual and moral justification for European colonial expansion, science or pseudo-science has occupied an uncomfortable place in our understanding of race. Yet…

  • Charles Waddell Chesnutt and the Solution to the Race Problem Negro American Literature Forum Volume 3, Number 2 (Summer, 1969) pagess 52-56 June Socken Charles Waddell Chesnutt, the first American Negro short story writer and novelist of recognized professional quality, squarely faced the problem of Negro-White relations in America.   Although his short story “The Wife…

  • Defining race in this sense of elementary species we have to consider our problem: What are the results of race intermingling, or miscegenation?

  • Racialised relations in Liverpool: A contemporary anomaly   Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Volume 17, Issue 4 (1991) pages 511-537 DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.1991.9976265 Stephen Small, Associate Professor, African American Studies; Associate Director of the Institute of International Studies; Director, The Rotary International Center for Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution University of California, Berkeley The…

  • Rena’s Two Bodies: Gender and Whiteness in Charles Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars Studies in the Novel Volume 43, Numbers 1 (Spring 2011) pages 38-54 E-ISSN: 1934-1512 Print ISSN: 0039-3827 Melissa Ryan, Associate Professor of English Alfred University, Alfred, New York In a letter thirty years after The House Behind the Cedars was published,…

  • Pauline Black launches her autobiography Louder Than War 2011-08-04 Miles Barter Pauline Black launches her autobiography, ‘Black By Design’   Music was hardly mentioned as Selecter frontwoman Pauline Black launched her autobiography at Houseman’s radical bookshop in London on Wednesday evening (last night 3 Aug).   She told the 70 people packed into a sweltering…