Category: Women

  • Women Warriors of the Afro-Latina Diaspora Arte Público Press 2012-04-30 248 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-55885-746-9 Edited by: Marta Moreno Vega, Alba Marinieves and Yvette Modestin Afro-Latina women relate their personal stories and advocacy for racial equality “My housewife mother turned into a raging warrior woman when the principal of my elementary school questioned whether her…

  • Meet The 63rd Black Woman In American History With A Physics Ph.D. The Huffington Post 2015-06-24 Nico Pitney Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is a 32-year-old theoretical astrophysicist. Her academic home is arguably the nation’s most elite physics department, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In one sense, she is among a dying breed. Prescod-Weinstein is a…

  • Musician Chi-chi Nwanoku discussing her life and work on Talking Africa BlackRook Media 2015-05-12 Musician Chi-chi Nwanoku has been discussing her life and work on Talking Africa. Chi-Chi is a passionate advocate of music and particularly the double bass. She is a Principal Double Bass and founder member of the Orchestra of the Age of…

  • Hundreds gather over Maggie Walker statue controversy WWBT, NBC 12 Richmond, Virginia 2016-01-12 Ashley Monfort, Henrico Reporter RICHMOND, VA (WWBT) – Discussion about plans to build a statue of Maggie Walker in downtown Richmond drew a lot of opinions on both sides. Hundreds of residents gathered at the Richmond Public Library Tuesday to have their…

  • The artist and philosopher Adrian Piper’s direct and subtly intellectual approach to unpacking the tangled issues of race, gender, identity, and belonging has inspired a generation of socially-conscious artists across all media, although her impact is just now being fully recognized: she was the recipient of the Golden Lion for best artist at this year’s…

  • This pioneering volume draws together theoretical and empirical contributions analyzing the experiences of white mothers in interracial families in Britain, Canada and the USA.

  • Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race New York University Press April 2014 273 pages 12 halftones Cloth ISBN: 9781479812981 Paper ISBN: 9781479859498 Ellen Samuels, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and English University of Wisconsin, Madison In the mid-nineteenth-century United States, as it became increasingly difficult to distinguish between bodies understood as black, white,…

  • Going Silent: Augusta Chiwy (B. 1921) The Lives They Lived (2015) The New York Times Magazine 2015-12-16 Ruth Padawer, Adjunct Professor of Journalism Columbia University, New York, New York Augusta Chiwy as a nursing student, front row center, at St. Elisabeth Hospital in Leuven, Belgium, in 1943. Credit: Photograph from Martin King She saw so…

  • Augusta Chiwy, ‘Forgotten’ Wartime Nurse, Dies at 94 The New York Times 2015-08-25 Sam Roberts, Urban Affairs Correspondent Augusta Chiwy was honored in 2011 for saving Americans during World War II. Credit Eric Lalmand/European Pressphoto Agency Augusta Chiwy, a Belgian nurse whose unsung bravery in saving countless American soldiers wounded in the Battle of the…

  • Identity Crisis for the Creole Woman: A Search for Self in Wide Sargasso Sea McKendree University Scholars Journal Lebanon, Illinois Issue 10, Winter 2008 Stephanie Coartney “‘And how will you like that’ I thought, as I kissed him. ‘How will you like being made exactly like other people?’” (Rhys 22). In this excerpt from Jean…