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  • `For Venus smiles not in a house of tears’: Interethnic relations in European cinema

    `For Venus smiles not in a house of tears’: Interethnic relations in European cinema European Journal of Cultural Studies 2003 Vol. 6, No. 1 pages 55-74 DOI: 10.1177/1367549403006001470 Anneke Smelik University of Nijmegen In the 1990s, several European filmmakers addressed the Romeo and Juliet motif of `impossible love’ in the context of multiculturalism. A heterosexual…

  • An Illuminated Life: Bella da Costa Greene’s Journey from Prejudice to Privilege

    The secret life of the sensational woman behind the Morgan masterpieces, who lit up New York society.

  • Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico

    Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico Yale University Press 2004-04-10 252 pages 8 1/2 x 11 100 b/w +100 color illus. Paper ISBN: 9780300109719 Cloth ISBN: 9780300102413 Ilona Katzew, Associate Curator of Latin American Art Los Angeles County Museum of Art Selected for Honorable Mention for a 2003-2004 Book Award given by the…

  • The Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Virtuoso of the Sword and the Bow

    The Chevalier de Saint-Georges, born Joseph Bologne, was the son of an African slave and a French plantation owner on the island of Guadeloupe. The story of his improbable rise in French society, his life as a famous fencer, celebrated violinist-composer and conductor, and later commander of a colored regiment in the French Revolution, should,…

  • Anomaly: A New Documentary Film About Mixed Race Identity

    Anomaly: A New Documentary Film About Mixed Race Identity African Diaspora Film Festival Tuesday, 2009-12-01 at 17:50 EST (Local Time) – Anthology Film Archives, 2nd St. and 2nd Ave., New York, New York Wednesday, 2009-12-09 at 19:30 EST (Local Time) – Cowin Center, Columbia University Teachers College, 525 W. 120th St., New York, New York…

  • Embracing Ambiguity: Faces of the Future

    Embracing Ambiguity: Faces of the Future Cal State Fullerton College of the Arts Main Gallery 2010-01-30 through 2010-03-05 Opening Reception: 2010-01-30, 17:00-20:00, artist will be present Panel discussion 2010-02-02, 17:00-19:00, artist will be present 800 N. State College Blvd. Fullerton, CA 92831-3547 Phone (657) 278-7750 Curated by Lynn Stromick and Jillian Nakornthap Featuring Laura Kina,…

  • Crossing the Line: Racial Passing in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture

    As W. E. B. DuBois famously prophesied in “The Souls of Black Folk,” the fiction of the color line has been of urgent concern in defining a certain twentieth-century U.S. racial “order.” Yet the very arbitrariness of this line also gives rise to opportunities for racial “passing,” a practice through which subjects appropriate the terms…

  • The Obama Issue

    The Obama Issue Journal of Visual Culture August 2009 Volume 8, No. 2 Online ISSN: 1741-2994 Print ISSN: 1470-4129 The August 2009 edition of Journal of Visual Culture is focused on president Barack Obama. Table of Contents Marquard Smith and JVC Editorial Group Questionnaire on Barack Obama pp. 123-124 W.J.T. Mitchell Obama as Icon pp.…

  • Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the Idea of Race in the 18th Century

    Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the Idea of Race in the 18th Century Cornell University Press 2002 264 pages 6 x 9, 12 color illustrations, 65 halftones ISBN: 978-0-8014-4085-4 David Bindman, Emeritus Professor of the History of Art University College London Ape to Apollo is the first book to follow the development in the eighteenth…

  • Ellen Craft: A New American Opera

    Ellen Craft: A New American Opera 8th Annual New York City International Fringe Festival 2004-08-13 through 2004-08-29 Lyrics by Sherry Boone Music: Sean Jeremy Palmer Book: Sherry Boone and Sean Jeremy Palmer Ellen Craft: A New American Opera is based on true events of a half -white, half-black womans harrowing escape from slavery disguised as…