Month: May 2010

  • Rethinking race at the Students of Color Dinner University of Buffalo Law Links University of Buffalo Law School April 2010 On the day that civil rights icon Benjamin Hooks passed away, UB Law School’s 21st annual Students of Color Dinner took stock of the nation’s state of race relations – and celebrated achievements that transcended…

  • ‘If You Can’t Pronounce My Name, You Can Just Call Me Pride’: Afro-German Activism, Gender and Hip Hop Gender & History Volume 15 Issue 3 (November 2003) Pages 460 – 486 DOI: 10.1111/j.0953-5233.2003.00316.x Fatima El-Tayeb, Assistant Professor of African-American Literature and Culture University of California, San Diego The history of the black German minority, now…

  • Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out Orlanda Frauenverlag (German) 1986 University of Massachusetts Press (English) 1992 ISBN: 0-87023-759-4 Likely out of print. Edited by May Opitz [Ayim] Katharina Oguntoye Dagmar Schultz Translated by Anne V. Adams Foreword by Audre Lorde

  • May Ayim: A Woman in the Margin of German Society The Florida State University College of Arts and Scienes Spring Semester, 2005 76 pages Margaret MacCarroll, Professor of Modern Languages: German Division Florida State University A thesis submitted to the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree…

  • ‘Fühlst du dich als Deutsche oder als Afrikanerin?’: May Ayim’s Search for an Afro-German Identity in her Poetry and Essays German Life and Letters Volume 59 Issue 4 (October 2006) Pages 500-514 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0483.2006.00364.x Jennifer Michaels, Professor of German; Samuel R. and Marie-Louise Rosenthal Professor of Humanities Grinnell College, Iowa Until her suicide in 1996, May…

  • 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.