Category: Women

  • INDIGO – Laura Kina & Shelly Jyoti Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts 2043 North Miami Avenue Miami, Florida 33127 2011-05-14 through 2011-06-30 Opening Reception 2011-05-14, 14:00-21:00 EDT (Local Time) Laura Kina, Associate Professor Art, Media and Design and Director Asian American Studies DePaul University Shelly Jyoti, Visual Artist, Fashion Designer, Poet, Researcher and Independent Curator In…

  • Jamette Carnival and Afro-Caribbean Influences on the Work of Jean Rhys Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal Volume 3, Issue 2 (Fall 2005) 22 paragraphs ISSN 1547-7150 Cynthia Davis Most art critics would agree that since the Universal Exhibition of 1900 in Paris, African aesthetics have profoundly influenced twentieth century sculpture and painting. Literary critics have…

  • Secret Asian Woman Stage and Studio with Dmae Roberts 2011-03-03 Independent Producer Dmae Roberts presents Secret Asian Woman, a half-hour personal exploration of identity and Mixed Race. Through her personal story, Dmae charts four decades of a search by multiracial peoples for a name. The politics of calling out racism has changed through the years…

  • Has perception of biracial women changed in modern times? SMU Daily Campus Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 2011-05-03 Victoria Ahmadi As a biracial woman myself, I find it essential that society become better informed of the life-altering consequences that biracial individuals are forced to deal with. While the media’s perceptions of identity shift, young women…

  • “A Being of a New World:” The Ambiguity of Mixed Blood in Pauline Johnson’s “My Mother” MELUS Volume 27, Number 3, Native American Literature (Autumn, 2002) pages 43-56 Margo Lukens, Associate Professor of English University of Maine Studying mixed-blood/Métis history reveals that an overwhelming number of unions between Europeans and Native people happened between a…

  • Exploring the Popularization of the Mixed Race American The Human Experience: Inside the Humanities at Stanford University 2011-04-22 Stanford Scholar Investigates the “Mulatto Millennium” through Literature, Theatre, Art, & Pop Culture The United States has its first mixed race president, a man with a black African father and white American mother. Actress Halle Barry, golfer…

  • Long uncovers a connection between the geographical segregation of prostitution and the rising tide of racial segregation. She offers a compelling explanation of how New Orleans’s lucrative sex trade drew tourists from the Bible Belt and beyond even as a nationwide trend toward the commercialization of sex emerged.

  • Truthdig Radio with Marcia Dawkins Truthdig Radio KPFK 90.7 FM (Los Angeles); 98.7 FM (Santa Barbara); 99.5 FM (China Lake); 93.7 North San Diego Wednesday, 2011-04-20, 21:00Z (14:00 PDT, 17:00 EDT) Kasia Anderson, Host and Associate Editor Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Dr. Dawkins discusses mixed race identities, press (including the 2011-04-18 CNN…

  • Deconstructing the Visual: The Diasporic Hybridity of Asian and Eurasian Female Images Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context Australian National University Issue 8, October 2002 45 paragraphs ISSN 1440 9151 Julie Matthews, Associate Professor and Director of Research Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia Introduction…

  • Problems with Plaçage: Historical Imagination and Femmes de couleurs libres in Colonial and Antebellum New Orleans Bridges: A Journal of Student Research Coastal Carolina University Issue 3 (Winter 2009) Philip Whalen, Associate Professor of History Coastal Carolina University This essay compares two approaches to understanding the condition of free women of color who struggled to…