Category: Women

  • Self-Writing, Literary Traditions, and Post-Emancipation Identity: The Case of Mary Seacole Biography Volume 23, Number 2, Spring 2000 pages 309-331 DOI: 10.1353/bio.2000.0009 Evelyn J. Hawthorne, Professor of English Howard University, Washington, D.C. “ . . . unless I am allowed to tell the story of my life in my own way, I cannot tell it…

  • Community Profiles – Melissa Nobles MIT School of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences Great Ideas Change the World 2013-04-21 Leda Zimmerman “All societies periodically have to do soul-searching,” says Melissa Nobles, the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science. With research that illuminates historic episodes of racial and ethnic injustice, Nobles has developed a…

  • Acclaimed Actress Performs Play on Race, Love The Daily Nexus University of California, Santa Barbara’s Independent, Student Run Newspaper 2013-05-08 Carissa Quiambao William Zhou / Daily Nexus Award-winning actress and playwright Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni performed her one-woman play, “One Drop of Love: A Daughter’s Search for Her Father’s Racial Approval” at the UCSB Multicultural Center…

  • Solo Show at UCSB’s MultiCultural Center Examines Notions of Racial Identity Public Affairs & Communications University of California, Santa Barbara News Release 2013-05-01 Contact: Andrea Estrada: 805-893-4620; George Foulsham: 805-893-3071 Multimedia performance is produced by Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Chay Carter (Santa Barbara, Calif.)—When actress and playwright Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni married the love of…

  • One Drop of Love: A Daughter’s Search for Her Father’s Racial Approval (at University of California, Santa Barbara) University of California, Santa Barbara MultiCultural Center Theater [Directions] [Map] University Center, Room 1504 Tuesday, 2013-05-07, 18:00-20:00 PDT (Local Time) Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, Playwright, Producer, Actress, Educator Jillian Pagan, Director Produced by: Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Chay…

  • Exotic, seductive, and doomed: the antebellum mixed-race free woman of color has long operated as a metaphor for New Orleans. Commonly known as a “quadroon,” she and the city she represents rest irretrievably condemned in the popular historical imagination by the linked sins of slavery and interracial sex. However, as Emily Clark shows, the rich…

  • Interview: Nia King, “Bodies on the Line” Mixed Reader: A blog of mixed race literature 2013-04-27 Tali Weinberg Nia King is multimedia producer with a passion for social justice. She started out as a zinester writing about mixed-race identity, made a short film about searching for trans-friendly housing in the Bay Area, and has recently…

  • Violent Liaisons: Historical Crossings and the Negotiation of Sex, Sexuality, and Race in The Book of Night Women and The True History of Paradise small axe: a caribbean journal of criticism Volume 16,Number 2, 38 (2012) pages 43-59 DOI: 10.1215/07990537-1665668 Sam Vásquez, Associate Professor of English Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire Increased criticism and representations…

  • Racial and Ethnic Identity Development in White Mothers of Biracial, Black-White Children Affilia Volume 19, Number 1 (February 2004) pages 68-84 DOI: 10.1177/0886109903260795 Margaret O’Donoghue, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Social Work New York University This article reports on a qualitative research study of the racial and ethnic identity of 11 White mothers who were married…

  • Exclusive: Sonia Rolland talks activism, new film Euromight: Your Guide to Afro-Europe 2013-04-15 Epée Hervé Dingong Sonia Rolland, (Miss France 2000), is an actress and model who has been outspoken about racial issues in the film and fashion industries, and in the media. In this exclusive interview she talks about her work, politics and what…