Category: Women

  • The Near-White Female in Frances Ellen Harper’s Iola Leroy Phylon (1960-) Volume 45, Number 4 (4th Quarter, 1984) pages 314-322 Vashti Lewis During the antebellum years, the near-white black character played a central role in the American novel. In fact, almost all of the novels of that period which feature near-white characters are antislavery tracts.…

  • Showing Her Colors: An Afro-German Writes the Blues in Black and White Callaloo Volume 26, Number 2, Spring 2003 pages 306-319 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2003.0045 Karein Kirsten Goertz, Lecturer of Germanic Language and Literature University of Michigan This essay undertakes a detailed analysis of May Ayim’s Blues in Schwarz Weiss and examines her development of what she…

  • Refusal to be defined by single categories: Lorde in 1983.

  • Exploring Gloria Anzaldúa’s Methodology in Borderlands/La Frontera—The New Mestiza Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge Volume IV, Special Issue, Summer 2006 pages 87-94 ISSN: 1540-5699 Jorge Capetillo-Ponce, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Massachusetts, Boston Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera—The New Mestiza does not fit into the usual critical categories simply because she follows…

  • Rejoining the Parts: A Conversation with Jane Lazarre About Race, Fiction, American History and Her New Novel, Inheritance Tenured Radical The Chronicle of Higher Education 2011-11-15 Claire Potter, Professor of History and American Studies Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut Jane Lazarre is a writer of fiction, memoir and poetry who has published many books, beginning with…

  • Old Whine, New Vassals: Are Diaspora and Hybridity Postmodern Inventions? Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe, Visiting Associate Professor of African and African American Studies Duke University Chapter in: New Ethnicities, Old Racisms? (pages 181-204) Zed Books May 1999 253 pages ISBN-10: 185649652X; ISBN-13: 978-1856496520 Edited by: Phil Cohen, Emeritus Professor University of East London The recent bag…

  • In brilliant novelistic detail, award-winning historian John Bailey reconstructs the exotic sights, sounds, and smells of mid-nineteenth-century New Orleans, an “infernal motley crew” of cotton kings, decadent river workers, immigrants, and slaves. Miller’s dramatic trial offers an eye into the fascinating laws and customs surrounding slavery, immigration, and racial mixing.

  • Bridging: How Gloria Anzaldúa’s Life and Work Transformed Our Own University of Texas Press April 2011 292 pages 6 x 9 in., 6 b&w photos Edited by: AnaLouise Keating, Professor of Women’s Studies Texas Woman’s University Gloria González-López, Associate Professor of Sociology, and Faculty Associate Center for Mexican American Studies Center for Women’s and Gender…

  • Acclaimed author reveals secret Scottish roots in moving tribute Daily Record Glasgow, Scotland 2011-05-08 Maggie Barry Sunday Mail Writer Aminatta Forna has been called many things in her life but never Scottish—until today. The African author’s fearless books exposing betrayal and treachery in Sierra Leone have brought critical acclaim and awards. But only now has…

  • Last Child Henry Holt and Company (an imprint of Macmillan) October 2005 240 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 240 pages, Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8050-7739-1, ISBN10: 0-8050-7739-1 E-Book ISBN: 978-1-4299-3709-2, ISBN10: 1-4299-3709-2 Michael Spooner, Director Utah State University Press A mixed-race girl must grow up quickly when danger threatens her world Rosalie’s biggest problem used…