Category: Women

  • In this innovative work, Adele Logan Alexander chronicles there heretofore undocumented dilemmas of one of nineteenth-century America’s most marginalized groups—free women of color in the rural South.

  • A conversation with Victoria E. Bynum, author of The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies University of North Carolina Press April 2010 Victoria E. Bynum, author of The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies, discusses three Unionist strongholds in the South, Q: There seems no…

  • Husband And Wife Duo Paved The Way For Blacks In Diplomacy [Interview with Adele Logan Alexander] Tell Me More National Public Radio 2010-02-10 Michel Martin, Host of Tell Me More with Adele Logan Alexander, Professor of History George Washington University Tell Me More continues its Black History Month series with a conversation with Adele Logan…

  • The relationship between binge eating and weight status on depression, anxiety, and body image among a diverse college sample: A focus on Bi/Multiracial women Eating Behaviors Volume 11, Issue 1, January 2010 Pages 18-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2009.08.003 Valentina Ivezaj Eastern Michigan University Karen K. Saules Eastern Michigan University Flora Hoodin Eastern Michigan University Kevin Alschuler Eastern…

  • Natasha Trethewey Reads at ECU The Common Reader Newsletter of the ECU Department of English Eastern Carolina University Volume 26, Number 6: May 2008 Lisa DeVries On April 2, Natasha Trethewey visited East Carolina University for a public reading and book signing organized by fellow poet and friend John Hoppenthaler.  She won the Pulitizer Prize…

  • Who am I? Middlebury Magazine Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont Winter 2010 Kevin Charles Redmon, [class of 20]10 As Janet Mondlane Rodrigues [class of 20]12 grapples with her own complex racial identity, she implores others to take a look in the mirror, as well, and ask themselves this loaded question. Early in Barack Obama’s presidential campaign,…

  • TALK: India and Gaugin’s Tahitian Nudes: Mapping Modernism In A Global Frame Interdisciplinary Humanities Center University of California, Santa Barbara 3041 HSSB 2010-02-17 16:00 PST (Local Time) Saloni Mathur, Associate Professor of Art History University of California, Los Angeles This presentation will revisit the legacy of Amrita Sher-Gil, the part-Indian/part-Hungarian painter who stands at the…

  • The Impossibility of Return: Black Women’s Migrations to Africa Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Volume 27, Number 2, 2006 pages 54-86 E-ISSN: 1536-0334 Print ISSN: 0160-9009 DOI: 10.1353/fro.2007.0009 Piper Kendrix-Williams, Professor of African-American Studies The College of New Jersey I was on an international flight, traveling from New York to Paris, when an older…

  • Legislating Women’s Sexuality: Cherokee Marriage Laws in the Nineteenth Century Journal of Social History Volume 38, Number 2, Winter 2004 E-ISSN: 1527-1897 Print ISSN: 0022-4529 DOI: 10.1353/jsh.2004.0144 Fay A. Yarbrough, Associate Professor of History University of Oklahoma During the first half of the nineteenth century, the Cherokee Nation passed many laws to regulate marriage and…

  • Multiracial Recognition in the 2000 Census: A Personal Perpective Perspectives Winter 2003 pages 48-58 Ikeita Cantú Hinojosa, JD, MSW National Women’s Law Center, Washington, D.C The census classification scheme chosen for race and ethnicity has become a prominent social fact in its own right and involves serious political and cultural consequences beyond its explicit policy…