Category: Women

  • Student director tackles ‘mixed race’ issues Daily Titan California State University, Fullerton 2009-05-17 Sean Belk From hapa to mestizo to mulatto, ‘Half ‘n’ Half’ acts out stories and history of miscegenation. Bright colorful faces peered through shadows of the low-lit set. The multi-cultural group of student actors then formed a circle, surrounding an infant, and…

  • Jen Chau Reflects on Her Work as a Change-Maker for Mixed-Race Communities JVoices.com 2008-12-03 Cole Krawitz Jen Chau, founder and director of SWIRL, (and an eagerly anticipated contributor to JVoices) will be presenting this Sunday at Inside the Activists’ Studio (which JVoices is a co-sponsor) on how activism needs a serious make-over, and tools for…

  • Ellen Craft’s Radical Techniques of Subversion e-misférica Hemispheric Institute for Performance & Politics Issue 5.2: Race and its Others (December 2008) 16 pages Uri McMillan, Assistant Professor of English University of California, Los Angeles Image by Bruce Yonemoto This paper considers the antebellum performance(s) of fugitive slave Ellen Craft. Craft, an African-American female slave from…

  • Chapter One: Barbara Jordan: American Hero New York Times 1998-12-13 Mary Beth Rogers Mary Beth Rogers, Barbara Jordan: American Hero, (New York: Bantam, 1998). BARBARA CHARLINE JORDAN was born February 21, 1936, the third daughter and last child of Benjamin Meredith and Arlyne Patten Jordan. The fortunes of Ben and Arlyne were good enough to…

  • This essay focuses on how immigrant mothers and second generation interracial daughters construct, perform, and negotiate racial and ethnic hybrid identities.

  • This anthology of poetry, spoken word, fiction, creative non-fiction, spoken word texts, as well as black and white artwork and photography, explores the question of how mixed-race women in North America identify in the twenty-first century.

  • “’Tain’t no tragedy unless you make it one”: Imitation of Life, Melodrama, and the Mulatta Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory Volume 66, Number 4, Winter 2010 pages 93-113 E-ISSN: 1558-9595, Print ISSN: 0004-1610 Molly Hiro, Assistant Professor of English University of Portland, Portland, Oregon “I just moved here. My name…

  • Imitation of Life Duke University Press 2004 (Originially published in 1933) 352 pages 6 b&w photos, 1 line drawing Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-3324-1 Fannie Hurst (1889–1968) Edited by: Daniel Itzkovitz, Associate Professor of  American Literature and Culture Stonehill College, North Easton, Massachusetts A bestseller in 1933, and subsequently adapted into two beloved and controversial films, Imitation…

  • The genealogical imagination: the inheritance of interracial identities The Sociological Review Volume 53, Issue 3 (August 2005) pages 476–494 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.2005.00562.x Katharine Tyler, Lecturer in Race and Ethnicity Department of Sociology University of Surrey The aim of this article is to examine ethnographically how ideas of descent, biology and culture mediate ideas about the inheritance…

  • Identity, Discrimination and Violence in Bessie Head’s Trilogy University of South Africa November 2002 71 pages Corwin Luthuli Mhlahlo Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the subject of English This dissertation seeks to explore the perceived intricate relationship that exists between constructed identity, discrimination and violence…