Category: Women

  • In Their Own Words with Michele Elam The Human Experience: inside the humanities at Stanford University 2011-04-15 Michele Elam, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English and Olivier Nomellini Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education Stanford University  In this installment of “In Their Own Words” English professor Michele Elam discusses her latest research, which…

  • Mixed race women speak out [Review] rabble.ca 2011-02-14 May Lui Other Tongues: Mixed Race Women Speak Out by Adebe De Rango-Adem and Andrea Thompson, eds.(Inanna Publications, 2010) In the past 20 years Canada has seen a few mixed race anthologies that reflect both the time, place and language that we use to talk about being…

  • Miscegenation Blues: Voices of Mixed Race Women is a stunning and long awaited collection of some of the most poignant writing by more than forty women of mixed racial heritage.

  • Ten Questions, with Adebe DeRango-Adem Open Book Toronto 2011-03-25 Adebe DeRango-Adem talks to Open Book about the anthology she co-edited with Andrea Thompson, Other Tongues: Mixed-Race Women Speak Out (Inanna Publications). The goal for this exciting anthology was not to nail down what identity means, but rather to open discussion and interrogate the diverse experiences…

  • Golden shadows on a white land: An exploration of the lives of white women who partnered Chinese men and their children in southern Australia, 1855-1915 University of Sydney November 2006 364 pages Kate Bagnall A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy This thesis explores the experiences of…

  • “As to her race, its secret is loudly revealed”: Winnifred Eaton’s Revision of North American Identity MELUS Volume 32, Number 2 (Summer 2007) pages 31-53 Karen E. H. Skinazi, Instructor of English University of Alberta At the tum of the twentieth century, Quebec-born Winnifred Eaton, a Chinese British woman who used the pseudonym “Onoto Watanna,”…

  • “A Half Caste” and Other Writings University of Illinois Press 2003 208 pages 6 x 9 in. Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-07094-5 Onoto Watanna (1875-1954) Edited by: Linda Trinh Moser, Professor of English Missouri State University Elizabeth Rooney Previously uncollected short stories and essays by the first fiction writer of Chinese ancestry to be published in the…

  • Seeing Black Women Anew through Lesbian Desire in Nella Larsen’s Passing Rocky Mountain Review Rocky Mountain Language Association Volume 60, Number 1 (Spring 2006) pages 25-52 H. Jordan Landry, Professor of English University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh Beginning in the 1910s and 1920s, a series of novels advocate that African Americans commit themselves to “loving blackness,”…

  • Passing as Black The University of Vermont University Communications 2011-03-30 Lee Ann Cox The new dynamics of biracial identity in America There’s a rule everybody knows. Not the golden one. Since the days of slavery and Jim Crow segregation, when “one drop” of black ancestry determined the whole of who you were, black-by-default is a…

  • Drs. Regina E. Spellers and Kimberly R. Moffitt to be Featured Guests on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox and Heidi W. Durrow Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #199-Drs.…