Category: Women

  • We must now return to Santa Cruz and give a hasty sketch of the fortunes of George Carlan and his wife, during the twelve years absence of their daughter in Denmark.

  • The story of Zoë Carlan, a young colored girl, of the little Danish island of Santa Cruz, is a pathetic illustration of the false position into which a refined and educated nature may be thrown, by the fierce prejudices of caste and color.

  • Natasha Trethewey talk Theater Coffman Memorial Union University of Minnesota 300 Washington Avenue SE Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 2011-04-27, 19:30-21:00 CDT (Local Time) Cost: Free Natasha Trethewey, Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing Emory University Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey talks about her family’s experience on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and how it…

  • Minstrel passing: Citizenship, race change, and motherhood in 1850s America Saint Louis University 2009 116 pages Publication Number: AAT 3383188 ISBN: 9781109452945 Roshaunda D. Cade, Writing Coordinator, Academic Resource Center Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Saint Louis University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements…

  • Fear and Desire: Regional Aesthetics and Colonial Desire in Kate Chopin’s Portrayals of the Tragic Mulatta Stereotype The Southern Literary Journal Volume 43, Number 1 (Fall 2010) pages 1-22 E-ISSN: 1534-1461 Print ISSN: 0038-4291 Dagmar Pegues The interrogation of the category of race in Kate Chopin’s fiction represents an essential dimension of regional aesthetics, and…

  • Hybrid Hotties: Intersections of Gender and Race in Multiracial Bodies Rhode Island School of Design 55 Angel Street, MET Room A Providence, Rhode Island Monday, 2011-03-21, 19:00-20:30 EDT (Local Time) (free and open to the public) Information: 401-277-4957 Ulli K. Ryder, Ph.D., Visiting Scholar Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America Brown…

  • Redefining Race and Ethnicity in the US Voice of America 2011-03-14 Todd Grosshans The number of young Americans with mixed race and ethnicity is rising real fast in the United States. Many are going to college helping to bridge racial and ethnic divides on campuses nationwide. VOA’s Todd Grosshans takes a closer look on the…

  • BBC Two explores what it means to be mixed-race in Britain British Broadcasting Corporaton 2010-03-10 Mixed-Race Britain is put under the spotlight this autumn on BBC Two in a collection of revealing and compelling new programmes. Britain in 2011 has proportionately the largest mixed population in the Western world, but 100 years ago people of…

  • Mixed-Race Americans Are on the Rise: Will It Change Communications? New York Women in Communications February 2011 In a new series by The New York Times, titled Race Remixed [Black? White? Asian? More Young Americans Choose All of the Above], reporter Susan Saulny looks at the impact of one of our country’s fastest-growing demographic groups,…

  • Daughter from Danang 2002 U.S.A. 81 Minutes Directed by: Gail Dolgin Vicente Franco A heartbreaking documentary that upsets your expectations of happily-ever-afters, Daughter from Danang is a riveting emotional drama of longing, identity, and the personal legacy of war. To all outward appearances, Heidi [Bub] is the proverbial “all-American girl”, hailing from small town Pulaski,…