Day: October 19, 2009

  • Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation: Spectacular Narratives of Gender and Race Princeton University Press 2004 376 pages 6 x 9, 142 halftones. Paperback ISBN: 9780691113050 Susan Courtney, Associate Professor of English and Film Studies University of South Carolina Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation analyzes white fantasies of interracial desire in the history of popular American film.  From…

  • Black and White and Read All Over: If you’re mixed-race, they never stop asking ‘What are you?’ Village Voice Tuesday, 2006-01-24   Naomi Pabst, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and American Studies Yale University It’s back in the ’90s in San Francisco. I’m undergoing a wisdom tooth extraction, hovering happily in nitrous oxide–land, when…

  • Black (un)like me: scholar Pabst dismantles stereotypes University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts Today Spring 2002 Judy Woodward Naomi Pabst (B.A. ’93 summa cum laude, English & African-American Studies) is the intellectual enemy of the stereotype, the easy generalization, and the sweeping statement. As a newly-minted scholar of African-American studies and the history of…