Category: Women

  • Regular screening mammography before the diagnosis of breast cancer reduces black:white breast cancer differences and modifies negative biological prognostic factors Breast Cancer Research and Treatment Volume 135, Number 2 (2012) pages 549-553 DOI: 10.1007/s10549-012-2193-3 Paula Grabler Feinberg College of Medicine Northwestern University Danielle Dupuy Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Taskforce, Chicago, Illinois Jennifer Rai University of…

  • What Can We Learn about White Privilege and Racism from the Experiences of White Mothers Parenting Biracial Children? Wilfrid Laurier University 2008 175 pages Shannon Cushing A THESIS Submitted to the Department of Psychology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Master of Arts Degree in Community Psychology Despite progress in the movement toward anti-racism,…

  • Learning to be different: A white mother of biracial children experiences racism University of St. Thomas (Minnesota) December 2004 194 pages Publication Number: AAT 3154007 ISBN: 9780496146376 Jennifer Ann Greer Johnson A Dissertation Submitted to the Education Faculty of the University of St. Thomas in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Degree Doctor of…

  • Scholars fix gaze on changing racial landscape Chicago Tribune 2012-10-29 Dawn Turner Trice Laura Kina, 39, is half Asian-American and half white. Her husband is Jewish, and her stepdaughter is half Hispanic. Her family, including her fair-skinned, blue-eyed biological daughter, lives near Devon Avenue in the heart of Chicago’s Indian and Pakistani community. Kina, who’s…

  • Beyond Confronting the Myth of Racial Democracy: The Role of Afro-Brazilian Women Scholars and Activists Gettysburg College Faculty Publications Paper 1 (November 2007) 55 pages Nathalie Lebon, Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania This paper offers a synopsis of the current scholarship mapping the social and economic exclusion of…

  • The Long Walk to Freedom: Runaway Slave Narratives Beacon Press 2012-08-21 288 pages 6″ x 9″ Cloth ISBN: 978-080706912-7 Devon W. Carbado, Professor of Law and African American Studies University of California, Los Angeles Donald Weise, Independent Scholar in African American history The first book about the runaway slave phenomenon written by fugitive slaves themselves.…

  • Roles of a Lifetime | Halle Berry The New York Times Magazine 2012-10-20 Joyce Maynard It’s 10 in the morning, and already Halle Berry is being chased, though a better word for what’s going on might be “hunted.” Considering this, the Oscar-winning actress — one of the stars of the film “Cloud Atlas” — makes…

  • “Maneuvers of Silence and the Task of ‘New Negro’ Womanhood” Journal of Narrative Theory Volume 42, Number 1, Spring 2012 pages 46-68 DOI: 10.1353/jnt.2012.0006 Emily M. Hinnov, Assistant Dean of Curriculum & Lecturer of English Granite State College, Concord, New Hampshire Yes, she has arrived. Like her white sister, she is the product of profound…

  • Family Portrait in Black and White: Documentary by Julia Ivanova Interfilm Productions Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2011 Institutional Use: Double DVD (includes 85 and 52 minute versions) Private Use: 85 minute DVD Julia Ivanova, Director Olga Nenya has 27 children. Four of them, now adults, are her biological children; the other 23 are adopted or…

  • Ai, a Steadfast Poetic Channel of Hard Lives, Dies at 62 The New York Times 2010-03-27 Margalit Fox The prominent American poet Ai, whose work — known for its raw power, jagged edges and unflinching examination of violence and despair — stood as a damning indictment of American society, died on March 20 in Stillwater,…