Category: Media Archive

  • These essays consider a wide range of texts and moments from colonial times to the present that raise significant questions about the political motivations inherent in the origins and maintenance of identity categories and boundaries.

  • Distancing the Proximate Other: Hybridity and Maud Diver’s Candles in the Wind Twentieth Century Literature Volume 50, Number 2 (Summer, 2004) pages 107-140 Loretta M. Mijares The half-caste out here falls between two stools, that’s the truth. —Maud Diver, Candles in the Wind Miscegenation has long been recognized as one of the recurrent tropes of…

  • In 1888, Brazil, with a mostly black and mixed race or mulatto population, was the last country in the Western Hemisphere to abolish slavery. During more than 300 years of slavery in the Americas, it was the largest importer of African slaves, bringing in seven times as many African slaves to the country, compared to…

  • Educating Seeta: The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule Ohio State University Press May 2010 161 pages 6×9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8142-1126-7 CD ISBN: 978-0-8142-9224-2 Shuchi Kapila, Associate Professor of English Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa Even though Edward Said’s Orientalism inspired several generations of scholars to study the English novel’s close involvement with…

  • Previous work discussing Black beauty has tended to concentrate on Black women’s search for white beauty as a consequence of racialization. Without denying either the continuation of such aesthetics or their enduring power, this book uncovers the cracks in this hegemonic Black beauty.

  • ‘What makes us who we are? My adoption is a story that has happened to me. I couldn’t make it up.’

  • Jackie Kay’s Representation of ‘The Broons’: Scotland’s Happy Family eSharp Special Issue: Spinning Scotland: Exploring Literary and Cultural Perspectives (2009) pages 109-143 ISSN: 1742-4542 Mª del Coral Calvo Maturana Universidad de Granada This paper focuses on the contemporary Scottish poet Jackie Kay and the comic strip ‘The Broons’ by studying Jackie Kay’s representation of this…

  • The Poet as Cultural Dentist: Ethnicity in the Poetry of Jackie Kay Theory and Practice in English Studies 4 (2005) Proceedings from the Eighth Conference of British, American and Canadian Studies. Brno: Masarykova Univerzita pages 63-67 Pavlína Hácová, Philosophical Faculty Palacky University, Olomouc The acclaimed British poet Jackie Kay (born 1961) belongs to the colourful…

  • Jackie Kay (Review of Darling) Aesthetica Magazine Issue 19 (2007-10-01) page 10 Rachel Hazelwood Jackie Kay is one of the most prolific and insightful poets currently writing in the UK today. At a time when too many people frequently describe the form as being “in decline” and thought of as an “exclusive club”, Kay writes…

  • Biracial Asian Americans and Mental Health University of California, Davis News and Information 2008-08-10 A new study of Chinese-Caucasian, Filipino-Caucasian, Japanese-Caucasian and Vietnamese-Caucasian individuals concludes that biracial Asian Americans are twice as likely as monoracial Asian Americans to be diagnosed with a psychological disorder. The study by researchers at the Asian American Center on Disparities…