Category: Women

  • Oona King: My family values The Guardian 2013-04-19 Roz Lewis The Labour peer talks about her parents, growing up as the only mixed-race child in her class, and being an adoptive parent I was born in Sheffield. My father, Preston King, is African American; my mother, Hazel, is a Jewish Geordie. I have a brother,…

  • “‘Tubbee’ and His Nieces: A Colloquy on White Men, Choctaw Women, Intermarriage and ‘Indianness’ in the Choctaw Intelligencer, 1851” Southeastern Oklahoma State University Native American Symposium 2005-Proceedings of the Sixth Native American Symposium pages 21-30 Richard Mize The Choctaw Intelligencer’s editorial commentary varied greatly when it came to Choctaw–Chickasaw relations with the United States in…

  • Re-Visioning Wildfire: Historical Interpretations of the Life and Art of Edmonia Lewis Southeastern Oklahoma University Native American Symposium 2005-Proceedings of the Sixth Native American Symposium pages 31-39 Julieanna Frost Concordia University As a feminist historian, one of my major goals is to reclaim the histories of women and to broadcast the diversity of the female…

  • Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial [Gaither Review] MXDWELL 2013-02-17 Renoir Gaither MXDWELL is a versatile online news source that celebrates and redefines the mixed experience by presenting a variety of cultural and artistic news, while promoting diversity as a vital aspect of our community. Behind her behemoth title, “Transcending…

  • Black Indian With a Camera: The Work of Valena Broussard Dismukes Southeastern Oklahoma University Native American Symposium 2005-Proceedings of the Sixth Native American Symposium pages 40-46 Sarita Cannon University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign In this paper, I examine the liberatory photography of a living African-Choctaw-French American artist, Valena Broussard Dismukes. I am especially fascinated by the…

  • SNAPSHOT: “a true story of love interrupted by invasion” Greenway Court Theatre 544. N. Fairfax Avenue Los Angeles, California 2013-04-04 through 2013-04-21 Mitzi Sinnott A daughter’s journey through a landscape of years, memories and realities, initiated by her questioning, “what do I know about war?”  The answers are lying in an album of faded photos…

  • Richard Pryor’s Daughter on Growing Up Biracial WNYC Radio New York, New York WNYC News 2013-04-07 Soterios Johnson April 7, 2013 – Richard Pryor, one of the most influential comedians of all-time, gained pop star status in the 1970’s with his incisive storytelling about issues including race.  Now, his daughter Rain is sharing her take…

  • Hybrid Identities and Adolescent Girls: Being ‘Half’ in Japan Multilingual Matters 2009-12-03 280 pages 210 x 148 (A5) Paperback ISBN: 9781847692320 Hardback ISBN: 9781847692337 Laurel Kamada, Lecturer Professor Tohoku University, Japan This is the first in-depth examination of “half-Japanese” girls in Japan focusing on ethnic, gendered and embodied ‘hybrid’ identities. Challenging the myth of Japan…

  • Bewildered in Boston HiLobrow 2011-11-12 Joshua Glenn, Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief Fanny Howe isn’t part of the local literary canon. But her seven novels about interracial love and utopian dreaming offer a rich social history of Boston in the 1960s and ’70s. [This essay first appeared in The Boston Globe’s IDEAS section, on March 7, 2004.]…

  • The Colour of Beauty National Film Board of Canada 2010 00:16:50 Elizabeth St. Philip Renee Thompson is trying to make it as a top fashion model in New York. She’s got the looks, the walk and the drive. But she’s a black model in a world where white women represent the standard of beauty. Agencies…