Category: Women

  • This biography details the life of Bessie Head – a life which echoes so many of the aspects of the distressing history of South Africa in the last half century. She was born in an asylum to a mother who was considered mad because her father was black. Despite the disadvantages of being both a…

  • Inexacting Whiteness: Blanqueamiento as a Gender-Specific Trope in the Nineteenth Century Cuban Studies Volume 36, 2005 pages 105-128 E-ISSN: 1548-2464 Print ISSN: 0361-4441 DOI: 10.1353/cub.2005.0033 Gema R. Guevara, Associate Professor, Languages & Literature and Associate Professor, Spanish Section University of Utah In Cuba, race, nation, and popular music were inextricably linked to the earliest formulations…

  • The Politics of Bisexual/Biracial Identity: A study of Bisexual and Mixed Race Women of Asian/Pacific Islander Descent San Diego State University First Published: 1999 Reprint: 2006 120 pages ISBN 1-23456-789-0 Beverly Yuen Thompson, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies Texas Woman’s College The construction of certain behaviors and physical characteristics into an acceptable and recognized “identity”…

  • Fence Sitters, Switch Hitters, and Bi-Bi Girls: An Exploration of “Hapa” and Bisexual Identities Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Vol. 21, No. 1/2 (2000) Asian American Women pp. 171-180. Beverly Yuen Thompson, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies Texas Woman’s College I had been wondering about taking part in a student theatre project about being…

  • The University of Iowa – Be Remarkable: Courtney Parker University of Iowa 2009-06-08 Po Li Loo Inspired by her multicultural background, a 2008 grad set out to connect campus groups and redefine diversity. Courtney Parker came to The University of Iowa because of the renowned Writers’ Workshop. But in her time here, she discovered other…

  • Louisa May Alcott On Race, Sex, And Slavery Northeastern University Press University Press of New England 1997 160 pages EAN: 978-1-55553-307-6 Louisa May Alcott Edited by Sarah Elbert, Professor Emerita of History The State University of New York, Binghamton The passionate supporter of abolition and women’s rights speaks out on the most controversial issues of…

  • Demystifying the “Tragic Mulatta”: the Biracial Woman as Spectacle Stanford Black Arts Quarterly Stanford University 2.3 (Summer/Spring 1997) Pages 12-14 Stafanie Dunning, Associate Professor and Director of Literature Program Miami University, Ohio “You know redbone girls got a problem.” —Cassandra Wilson, Blue Light ‘Til Dawn “Indigenous like corn, like corn the mestiza is a product…

  • Hapa Girl: A Memoir Temple University Press March 2007 232 pages 5.5×8.25, 12 halftones Paper EAN: 978-1-59213-616-2 (ISBN: 1592136168) Cloth EAN: 978-1-59213-615-5 (ISBN: 159213615X May-lee Chai Named one of the Notable Books in the Kiriyama Prize, 2008 Honorable Mention at the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Awards, 2007 A vivid depiction of the racism suffered by…

  • Dating Practices, Racial Identity, and Psychotherapeutic Needs of Biracial Women Women & Therapy Volume 27, Issue 1 & 2 January 2004 pages 103 – 117 DOI: 10.1300/J015v27n01_07 Ivory Roberts-Clarke University of Rhode Island Angie C. Roberts University of Georgia Patricia Morokoff, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Clinical Psychology University of Rhode Island Studies…

  • Eurasian Persuasions: Mixed Race, Performativity and Cosmopolitanism Journal of Intercultural Studies Volume 28, Issue 1 (February 2007) pages 41-54 DOI: 10.1080/07256860601082921 Julie Matthews, Associate Professor School of Education University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Eurasians are ‘in’. We are the poster children of globalisation. In Asia, and increasingly in the West, mixed-race Eurasian models charm us…