Category: Women

  • Seven Hours To Burn Women Make Movies USA/Canada, 1999 9 minutes Color/BW, VHS/16mm Order No. W01699 Shanti Thakur “A visually expressive personal documentary that explores a family’s history. Filmmaker Thakur mixes richly abstract filmmaking with disturbing archival war footage to narrate the story of her Danish mother’s and Indian father’s experiences. Her mother survives Nazi-occupied…

  • Mixed-Race Celebrities on Race, in their Own Words Time Magazine: Healthland 2011-02-15 Meredith Melnick, Reporter and Producer Who Are You? If biracial and multiracial celebrities have anything in common, it is that they are often asked to explain themselves. That may sound familiar to any person of mixed ancestry for whom questions like “What are…

  • Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the Americas University of Illinois Press 2004 344 pages 6 x 9.25 in.  Illustrations: 25 tables Cloth ISBN: 978-0-252-02939-4 Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-07194-2 Edited by David Barry Gaspar, Professor of History Duke University Darlene Clark Hine, Board of Trustees Professor of African American Studies and History Northwestern University Black…

  • Halle Berry and Nahla: Not So Mixed, Not So Happy The Huffington Post 2011-02-09 Marcia Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University As we await the results of the 2010 Census it’s tempting to think that our growing comfort with categorizing people as multiracial has erased racism and the fear of interracial relations. But in a recent…

  • Asian American Studies: Building Academic Bridges – Nitasha Sharma The Department of African American Studies Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois October 2010 Ronald Roach NITASHA TAMAR SHARMA Title: Assistant Professor of African-American and Asian American Studies, Northwestern University Education: Ph.D., Anthropology, University of alifornia at Santa Barbara; M.A., Anthropology, University of California at Santa Barbara; B.A.,…

  • ‘Land of our Mothers’: Home, Identity, and Nationality for Anglo-Indians in British India, 1919–1947 History Workshop Journal Volume 54, Issue 1 pages 49-72 DOI: 10.1093/hwj/54.1.49 Alison Blunt, Professor of Geography Queen Mary, University of London This paper explores the symbolic and material intersections of home, identity and nationality for Anglo-Indians (previously known as ‘Eurasians’) in…

  • “A White Side of Black Britain” explores the racial consciousness of white women in the United Kingdom who have established families and had children with black men of African Caribbean heritage. Filling a gap in the sociological literature on racism and antiracism, France Winddance Twine introduces new theoretical concepts in her description and analysis of…

  • Brass Ankles Speak Essays by Alice Dunbar-Nelson circa 1929 Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) Prefatory Note by Gloria T. Hull Entitled “Brass Ankles Speaks” (Vol. 2, WADN), it is an outspoken denunciation of darker skinned black people’s prejudice against light-skinned blacks told by a “brass ankles,” a black person “white enough to pass for white, but with…

  • The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson (Volume 1) Oxford University Press 1988 480 pages 4-5/8 x 6-1/2 Hardback ISBN13: 978-0-19-505250-3; ISBN10: 0-19-505250-1 Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) Edited by Gloria Hull Spanning the gamut of literary genres, from autobiographical short stories to poetry, journalism, and novelettes, this is a comprehensive collection of one of America’s most seminal women…

  • Iola Leroy or Shadows Uplifted 1893 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The Project Gutenberg EBook 2004-05-14 #12352 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) Read the entire book here.