Category: Women

  • The artists Adrian Piper, Eleanor Antin, Anna Deavere Smith, and Nikki S. Lee have all crossed racial, ethnic, gender, and class boundaries in works that they have conceived and performed. Cherise Smith analyzes their complex engagements with issues of identity through close readings of a significant performance, or series of performances, by each artist.

  • Bessora: A Writer with a Thirty-Eight Shoe Size Wasafiri Volume 24, Issue 2 (2009) pages 60-65 DOI: 10.1080/02690050902771779 Adele King The character of literary criticism combined with pedagogical strategies tends to categorise, moving one accepted orthodoxy forward by pushing another out of the way. Early approaches to European literature were to treat it as a…

  • In the Shadow of Her Ancestry: The New Tragic Mulatta North Carolina State University, Raleigh 2004 60 pages Vonda Marie Easterling A thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of North Carolina State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts This thesis examines the plight of the infamous tragic…

  • Shoshanna Weinberger: What Makes My Hottentot So Hot Solo(s) Project House: Creative Spaces in Downtown Newark, New Jersey 2012-01-27 through 2012-03-02 Weinberger presents a body of work that is driven by the history of exposé, beauty and form inspired by the real-life story of Saartjie Baartman the “Hottentot Venus.”   “I find Baartman’s life both…

  • Bordering Community: Reclaiming Ambiguity as a Transgressive Landscape of Knowledge Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work Volume 27, Number 2 (May 2012) pages 167-179 DOI: 10.1177/0886109912443957 Kimberly D. Hudson School of Social Work University of Washington, Seattle Critically investigating the concept of community, this article explores some of the ideological and epistemological frameworks that…

  • The Origins of Mixed Race Populations New African January 2005 Carina Ray, Associate Professor of African and Afro- American Studies Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts While rape played a huge part in the origins of Africa and the Diaspora’s mixed race populations, it is wrong to attribute it all to rape, argues Carina Ray. In the…

  • “Spectacular wickedness”: New Orleans, prostitution, and the politics of sex, 1897-1917 Yale University May 2005 274 pages Publication Number: AAT 3168932 ISBN: 9780542049149 Emily Epstein Landau A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Yale University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy This dissertation is a history of the…

  • Black No More: Skin Bleaching and the Emergence of New Negro Womanhood Beauty Culture The Journal of Pan African Studies Voume 4, Number 4 (June 2011) pages 97-116 Treva B. Lindsey, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies University of Missouri, Columbia This article examines the usage of skin bleaching products and processes among some…

  • “Custodians of History”: (Re)Construction of Black Women as Historical and Literary Subjects in Afro-American and Afro-Cuban Women’s Writing University of Texas, Austin August 2005 500 pages Paula Sanmartín, Assistant Professor of (Afro) Caribbean and (Afro) Spanish American Literature California State University, Fresno Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of…

  • Nineteenth-Century New Orleans and a Carnival of Women University of Florida 2006 72 pages Ragan Wicker A Thesis Presented to the Graduate School of the University of Florida in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts The Carnival in New Orleans is historically the largest and longest annual public ritual…