Category: Media Archive

  • “¿Y ahora qué vas a hacer, mulata?”: Hip choreographies in the Mexican cabaretera film Mulata (1954) Women and Performance: a journal of feminist theory Volume 18, Issue 3, November 2008 Special Issue: Sensualidades: Sounds and Movement in Latina/o Culture pages 215-233 DOI: 10.1080/07407700802495951 Melissa Blanco Borelli, Lecturer of Dance Studies University of Surrey This essay…

  • Beautifully written and illustrated by Faith Ringgold, this children’s book accompanies the major exhibition “Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit.”

  • This article examines the filmic representations of the mulatta body in the films “Sparkle” (1976), “Flashdance” (1983) and “Honey” (2003). More specifically, this article seeks to unravel how the Hollywood filmic apparatus engages with signifiers of raced sexuality and hierarchies of dance styles to enforce and reify mythic narratives about dance, dancing raced bodies and…

  • Vogue Italia and Hoop Earrings Havana Barbie’s thought on the arts 2011-08-23 Melissa Blanco Borelli, Lecturer of Dance Studies University of Surrey I have always loved to wear hoop earrings. In fact, they are my earrings of choice. Big and silver, that’s how I like them. Imagine my surprise and shock when I saw earrings…

  • Jefferson’s Women The Humanist: A Magazine of Critical Inquiry and Social Concern March/April 2012 Cleo Fellers Kocol Thomas Jefferson was a private man who kept his personal life to himself, and yet today 18,000 of his letters exist in the public forum. In them, this farmer, architect, inventor, philosopher, politician, attorney, and “man of letters”—learned…

  • Historian Unmasks Quadroon Myth New Wave Tulane University News 2011-08-17 Carol J. Schlueter Historian Emily Clark has been here before, plowing through New Orleans archival documents from the early 1800s, handwritten in French. Her latest search has unveiled truths about a group of women that Clark says history has maligned: free women of color. “I…

  • Half and Half The Cornell Daily Sun Ithaca, New York 2012-03-28 Rebecca Lee Just about the only thing I am looking forward to about graduation is finally being able to meet all of my best friends’ parents.  In high school, we knew our friends’ parents almost as well as our own, calling them by their…

  • Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England University of Minnesota Press 2010 296 pages 25 b&w photos, 2 tables 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-6578-5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-6577-8 Jean M. O’Brien, (White Earth Ojibwe) Professor of History University of Minnesota Across nineteenth-century New England, antiquarians and community leaders wrote…

  • Facts of Blackness: Brazil is not Quite the United States… and Racial Politics in Brazil? Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture Volume 4, Issue 2, 1998 pages 201-234 DOI: 10.1080/13504639851807 Denise Ferreira Da Silva, Professor in Ethics Queen Mary University of London Studies of racial subordination in Brazil usually stress…

  • From blanqueamiento to reindigenización: Paradoxes of mestizaje and multiculturalism in contemporary Colombia European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Number 80, (April 2006) Constructing Ethnic Labels pages 5-23 Margarita Chaves, Researcher Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia (ICANH), Bogotá Marta Zambrano, Associate Professor of Historical Anthropology Universidad Nacional Colombia, Bogotá During the past two…