Category: Women

  • Darling: New & Selected Poems Bloodaxe Books 2007 224 pages Paperback ISBN: 1 85224 777 0 Jackie Kay, Professor of Creative Writing Newcastle University Humour, gender, sexuality, sensuality, identity, racism, cultural difference: when do any of these things ever come together to equal poetry? When Jackie Kay’s part of the equation. Darling brings together into…

  • What’s in a name? Exploring the employment of  ‘mixed race’ as an identification Ethnicities Volume 2, Number 4 (December 2002) pages 469-490 DOI: 10.1177/14687968020020040201 Minelle Mahtani, Professor of Geography and Journalism University of Toronto In the last 20 years, we have witnessed an explosion in scholarship and popular media accounts about the experience of ‘mixed race’…

  • Interview with Mixed In Canada’s Rema Tavares 100% Mixed Show 2012-03-12 Phil Koo Mixed-Me founder Rema Tavares talks about her website.

  • A Rising Voice: Afro-Latin Americans Miami Herald 2007-06-10 through 2007-06-24 In this series, the black experience is unveiled through a journey: to Nicaragua, where a quiet but powerful civil and cultural rights movement flickers while in neighboring Honduras, the black Garffuna community fights for cultural survival; to the Dominican Republic where African lineage is not…

  • “Invisible Woman: Growing Up Black in Germany,” republished in a new annotated edition, recounts Ika Hügel-Marshall’s experiences growing up as the daughter of a white German woman and an African-American man after World War II.

  • It was the New Graduate Student Reception for my class, the first social event of my first semester in the best graduate department in my field in the country. I was full of myself, as we all were, full of pride at having made the final cut, full of arrogance at our newly recorded membership…

  • Why Are We Hung Up on Our Mixed Roots? The Root 2012-03-06 Nsenga K. Burton, Ph.D., Editor At-Large The latest controversy in Beyoncé Knowles news may be her breast-feeding Blue Ivy in public, but I’m still shaking my head about the recent fuss over her True Match commercial for L’Oréal, which highlights the singer’s mixed-race…

  • Poverty at a Racial Crossroads: Poverty Among Multiracial Children of Single Mothers Journal of Marriage and Family Volume 75, Issue 2, April 2013 pages 486-502 DOI: 10.1111/jomf.12012 Jenifer L. Bratter, Associate Professor of Sociology Rice University Sarah Damaske, Assistant Professor of Labor Studies & Employment Relations Pennsylvania State University Although multiracial youth represent a growing…

  • The Body Beautiful: A film by Ngozi Onwurah Women Make Movies England, 1991 23 minutes Color, VHS/16mm/DVD Order No. W99229 Melbourne Film Festival, Best Documentary This bold, stunning exploration of a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her Black daughter who embarks on a modeling career reveals the profound effects of body image…

  • This article examines Brazilian ideals of female beauty and explores their impact on Black women’s subjective experiences. The analysis focuses on hair as a key site for investigating how Black women’s bodies and identities are marked by Brazilian discourses on race and gender. Despite Brazil’s image as a “racial democracy,” derogatory images of Black women…