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  • Free at Last?

    Free at Last? Commentary 1992-10-01 Glenn C. Loury, Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences; Professor of Economics Brown University A formative experience of my growing-up on the South Side of Chicago in the 1960’s occurred during one of those heated, earnest political rallies so typical of the period. I was about eighteen at…

  • Language variation, audience design, and racial identity: an analysis of discourse in Danzy Senna’s “Caucasia”

    Language variation, audience design, and racial identity: an analysis of discourse in Danzy Senna’s “Caucasia” Purdue University 2015 81 pages ISBN: 9781339183824 Rachelle R. Henderson Previous studies examining sociolinguistic language variation, race, and identity focus primarily on self-defining monoracial audiences. Additionally, previous studies examining mixed race identity in interracial literature use traditional literary or historical…

  • Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, “Why Can’t We Just Get Along?: Race Matters in the Colorblind Racial Movement”

    Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, “Why Can’t We Just Get Along?: Race Matters in the Colorblind Racial Movement” Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA) Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice Brown University 2015-02-27 (Published on 2015-07-02) Presents… Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology Duke University “Race Today: A Symposium on Race in…

  • Identity Crisis for the Creole Woman: A Search for Self in Wide Sargasso Sea

    Identity Crisis for the Creole Woman: A Search for Self in Wide Sargasso Sea McKendree University Scholars Journal Lebanon, Illinois Issue 10, Winter 2008 Stephanie Coartney “‘And how will you like that’ I thought, as I kissed him. ‘How will you like being made exactly like other people?’” (Rhys 22). In this excerpt from Jean…

  • Unwed Mothers, Race, and Transgression in William Faulkner’s Novels

    Unwed Mothers, Race, and Transgression in William Faulkner’s Novels McKendree University Scholars Journal Lebanon, Illinois Issue 24, Winter 2015 16 pages Mindy Allen As a modernist writer, William Faulkner is conflicted with the autonomy he can allow for his female characters, particularly unmarried mothers. Ideology about women during the early twentieth century, including the debates…

  • White Dads

    White Dads Mixed Roots Stories 2015-12-16 Sarah Gladstone Being brown and having a white dad means something, whether people want to acknowledge it or not. Right now, I’m working on an anthology project—“WHITE DADS: Stories and experiences told by people of color, fathered by white men.” I’ve been loving the ways people are taking this…

  • John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, and the Politics of Ethnic Incorporation and Avoidance

    John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, and the Politics of Ethnic Incorporation and Avoidance SUNY Press March 2013 Harcover ISBN13: 978-1-4384-4559-5 Electronic ISBN13: 978-1-4384-4561-8 Robert C. Smith, Professor of Political Science San Francisco State University Fascinating look at the challenges faced by John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama in their quests to win the presidency. Political…

  • Intergroup Dialogue: Engaging Difference, Social Identities and Social Justice

    Intergroup Dialogue: Engaging Difference, Social Identities and Social Justice Routledge 2013-05-13 24 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-81970-1 Edited by: Ximena Zuniga, Associate Professor in Social Justice Education University of Massachusetts, Amherst Gretchen Lopez, Director of the Intergroup Dialogue Program and Assistant Professor of Cultural Foundations of Education Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York Kristie Ford, Director of…

  • The Cry of Black Rage in African American Literature from Frederick Douglass to Richard Wright

    The Cry of Black Rage in African American Literature from Frederick Douglass to Richard Wright Edwin Mellen Press 2013 176 pages ISBN10: 0-7734-4077-1; ISBN13: 978-0-7734-4077-7 Steven Troy Moore, Assistant Professor of Language and Literature Abilene Christian University, Abilene Texas This book examines the contrasting experiences of black rage that is exhibited in the writings of…

  • The Alienist and Other Stories of Nineteenth-Century Brazil

    The Alienist and Other Stories of Nineteenth-Century Brazil Hackett Publishing Company March 2013 ca. 152 pages Cloth ISBN: 1-60384-853-3; 978-1-60384-853-4 Paper ISBN: 1-60384-852-5; 978-1-60384-852-7 Examination ISBN: 1-60384-852-5; 978-1-60384-852-7 Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) Edited by: John Charles Chasteen, Patterson Distinguished Term Professor of History University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Accompanied by a thorough…