Category: Women

  • Black And Jewish And Read All Over The Jewish Week 2013-07-16 Julie Wiener She may currently live on the Upper East Side, but Simone Weichselbaum, 31, remains a Brooklyn girl. Raised in Williamsburg and Crown Heights by her Ashkenazi Jewish dad (who freelances for The Jewish Week) and Jamaican mom, Weichselbaum, a Park East Day…

  • Displaced looks: The lived experience of beauty and racism Feminist Theory Volume 14, Number 2, August 2013   pages 137-151 DOI: 10.1177/1464700113483241 Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa, Lecturer in Sociology Newcastle University  With a focus on appearance and racialised perceptions of skin colour, this paper discusses the differences between being and feeling acceptable, pretty or ugly and…

  • The story of Mary Musgrove (1700-1764), a Creek Indian-English woman struggling for success in colonial society, is an improbable one.

  • A complicated family history places black Md. woman in DAR’s ranks The Washington Post 2013-06-29 Darryl Fears Reisha Raney’s role in Friday night’s Daughters of the American Revolution ceremony for the military was minor. She carried Virginia’s flag in a procession that walked a few steps down a carpeted aisle at Constitution Hall and then…

  • Some Thoughts on Biracialism and Poetry Boston Review 2013-06-13 Paisley Rekdal, Associate Professor of English University of Utah To be a biracial and female writer might suggest one of two things: first, that my gender and race are the subject matter of my work or, second, that the forms of my writing reflect my identity.…

  • Body Wellness Study Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas 2013-06-22 We would like to invite you to complete a brief online questionnaire investigating wellness and body image in an ethnically diverse population of adult females. The questionnaire can be completed from any computer and will take approximately 15-20 minutes of your time. By participating, you will…

  • There is No There There: Women and Intermarriage in the Southwestern Borderlands Common-Place A Common Place, An Uncommon Voice Volume 13, Number 3, Spring 2013 Amanda Taylor-Montoya Amanda Taylor-Montoya is an independent scholar living in southern New Mexico. Borderlands are fuzzy, slippery, ambiguous places. Whether imagined as a geographic region straddling an international border, “the…

  • She was a black woman, and she flouted convention. In an age that put ladies in the parlor and preferred them to be seen and not heard, she was nursing the British wounded, not in hospital wards with Florence Nightingale but on the Crimean battlefields—and off them, she was running a restaurant and hotel. She…

  • Hay winner’s search for identity BBC News 2003-05-27 A first-time writer who travelled halfway round the world to trace her roots has won the Welsh Book of the Year award at the Hay Festival. Charlotte Williams’ tale of her search for her identity, entitled Sugar and Slate, took her to three different continents. Ms Williams,…

  • Tragic Mulatto Girl Wonder: The paradoxical life of Philippa Duke Schuyler QBR The Black Book Review February/March 1996 Lise Funderburg Composition in Black and White: The Life of Philippa Schuyler. By Kathryn Talalay. Illustrated. 317 pp. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509608-8. As a child prodigy, pianist and composer, Philippa Duke Schuyler incited both…