Category: Women

  • Sweeter the Juice: A Family Memoir in Black and White Simon & Schuster January 1995 272 pages ISBN-10: 0671899333 ISBN-13: 9780671899332 Shirlee Haizlip The Sweeter the Juice is a provocative memoir that goes to the heart of our American identity. Shirlee Taylor Haizlip, in an effort to reconcile the dissonance between her black persona and…

  • Plaque honour for ‘first black star’ Elisabeth Welch BBC News 2012-02-27 The singer Elisabeth Welch is to be commemorated with an English Heritage blue plaque in south-west London. She is the second black woman to be honoured with a blue plaque in London. It will be unveiled in Ovington Court, Kensington, which was her home…

  • “Mixed-Blood” Indians in Southern New England TalkingFeather Radio Blogtalk Radio 2009-07-15 The historical connections of Native Americans and African people is not a topic that is often discussed in classrooms, nor is it found in elementary, middle and high school history books. The trading that went on with Africans who sailed to this continent and…

  • Categorization of racial/ethnic identity for racialized and marginalized biracials in the mainland United States California State University, Sacramento Spring 2009 169 pages Estrella Valdez THESIS Submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS in SPECIAL MAJOR (Ethnic Studies) There is no singular agreed-upon understanding of what it means to…

  • Eurasian Women as Tawa’if Singers and Recording Artists: Entertainment and Identity-making in Colonial India African and Asian Studies Volume 8, Issue 3 (2009) pages 268-287 DOI: 10.1163/156921009X458118 Shweta Sachdeva Jha, Assistant Professor of English Miranda House, University College for Women, University of Delhi Scholarship on Eurasians has often addressed issues of migration, collective identity and…

  • Traveling with Her Mother’s Tastes: The Negotiation of Gender, Race, and Location in “Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands” Signs Volume 26, Number 4, Globalization and Gender (Summer, 2001) pages 949-981 Sandra Gunning, Professor of English, Afroamerican and African Studies and Women’s Studies University of Michigan The autobiography Wonderful Adventuers of Mrs. Seacole…

  • Creole Performance in Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands Gender & History Volume 15, Issue 3, November 2003 pages 487–506 DOI: 10.1111/j.0953-5233.2003.00317.x Rhonda Frederick, Associate Professor of African & African Diaspora Studies Program Boston College Mary Seacole’s autobiography has been read as a feminist performance as well as a paradigmatic Victorian travel narrative.…

  • Mahtani wins prestigious geography award Inside UTSC University of Toronto, Scarborough 2012-03-29 Minelle Mahtani won the Glenda Laws Award for geography, which is given to early and mid-career scholars for outstanding contributions to geographical research on social issues.   It is administered by the Association of American Geographers, and endorsed by the Institute of Australian…

  • A Mixture of Culturas: The New Mestiza CHST 404 – Chicana Feminisms (Spring 2012) 2012-04-07 Erika Meza Loyola Marymount University Mestizaje is commonly known as the mixture of the European race with the Indians living in the Americas, something that began very long ago when the Americas were first being conquered. According to anthropologists on…

  • Letters from a Planter’s Daughter: Understanding Freedom and Independence in the Life of Susanna Townsend (1853-1869) The University of Alabama McNair Journal Volume 12  (Spring 2012) pages 145-174 R. Isabela Morales Wealthy Alabama cotton planter Samuel Townsend had already fathered eight children by the time Susanna Townsend was born in 1853—her mother, like all the…