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Month: July 2010

  • Queer Punk Macha Femme: Leslie Mah’s Musical Performance in Tribe 8

    Queer Punk Macha Femme: Leslie Mah’s Musical Performance in Tribe 8 Cultural Studies↔Critical Methodologies Volume 10, Number 4 (August 2010) pages 295-306 Deanna Shoemaker, Assistant Professor of Applied Communication (Performance Studies) Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey This essay analyzes the musical performances of Leslie Mah, biracial lead guitarist and backup vocalist for the…

  • Blackberries and Redbones: Critical Articulations of Black Hair/ Body Politics in Africana Communities

    This book features engaging scholarly essays, poems and creative writings that all examine the meanings of the Black anatomy in our changing global world. The body, including its hair, is said to be read like a text where readers draw center interpretations based on signs, symbols, and culture.

  • Arts and Mixedness [eConference]

    Arts and Mixedness [eConference] Runnymede Trust 2010-07-09 Runnymede is currently hosting an online debate on mixed-race identity and the arts. There is a comment from columnist and broadcaster Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Mixed-Race Britain: Where Next? Playwright and poet Sabrina Mahfouz also writes about her thoughts on mixed-race identity: A Reflection on Mixedness.  There are also contributions from…

  • A Reflection on Mixedness

    A Reflection on Mixedness Runnymede Trust July 2010 Sabrina Mahfouz, Poet, Writer and Playwright On the 27 May Runnymede and the Arts Council held a joint seminar in which they invited a group of arts practioners and policy makers to come and debate the nature of ‘Arts and Mixedness’; as well as what—if anything—the Arts…

  • Lone Mothers of Mixed Racial and Ethnic Children: Then and Now

    Lone Mothers of Mixed Racial and Ethnic Children: Then and Now Runnymede Trust June 2010 Chamion Caballero, Senior Research Fellow Families & Social Capital Research Group London South Bank University Rosalind Edwards, Professor in Social Policy Families & Social Capital Research Group London South Bank University Information from the UK Census indicates that parents of…

  • Mixed Race Britain: Where Next?

    Mixed Race Britain: Where Next? Runnymede Trust 2010-07-09 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Independent Journalist My two books on mixed race Britons, Colour of Love (1992) and Mixed Feelings (2001) were among the first non-academic explorations of racial mixing in Britain. In the nine years between the two publications, awareness had grown of the fast rising number of…

  • Race, Creole, and National Identities in Rhys’s “Wide Sargasso Sea” and Phillips’s “Cambridge”

    Race, Creole, and National Identities in Rhys’s “Wide Sargasso Sea” and Phillips’s “Cambridge” Small Axe Number 21 (Volume 10, Number 3) October 2006 pages 87-104 E-ISSN: 1534-6714, Print ISSN: 0799-0537 DOI: 10.1353/smx.2006.0035 Vivian Nun Halloran, Assoiate Professor of Comparative Literature Indiana University, Bloomington As postmodern historical novels dramatizing slavery and its legacy in the anglophone…

  • Situating the Essential Alien: Sui Sin Far’s Depiction of Chinese-White Marriage and the Exclusionary Logic of Citizenship

    Situating the Essential Alien: Sui Sin Far’s Depiction of Chinese-White Marriage and the Exclusionary Logic of Citizenship MFS Modern Fiction Studies Volume 54, Number 4, Winter 2008 pages 654-688 E-ISSN: 1080-658X Print ISSN: 0026-7724 DOI: 10.1353/mfs.0.1561 Jane Hwang Degenhardt, Assistant Professor of English University of Massachusetts, Amherst This essay looks at how Sui Sin Far’s…

  • Rene, Louis, and Leopold: Senghorian Negritude as a Black Humanism

    Rene, Louis, and Leopold: Senghorian Negritude as a Black Humanism MFS Modern Fiction Studies Volume 51, Number 4, Winter 2005 pages 921-935 E-ISSN: 1080-658X Print ISSN: 0026-7724 DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2006.0008 Michel Fabre Randall Cherry Jonathan P. (Paul) Eburne, Professor of Comparative Literature and English Pennsylvania State University Drawing from archival documentation of their long-standing literary relationship,…

  • The Meaning of Race in Healthcare and Research-Part 2: Should Race Be Used in Health Care and Research?

    The Meaning of Race in Healthcare and Research-Part 2: Should Race Be Used in Health Care and Research? Pediatric Nursing Volume 31, Number 4 (July-August 2005) Pages 305-308 Cathy J. Tashiro, PhD, RN, Associate Professor of Nursing University of Washington, Tacoma The state of race today is complex and challenging. An article published in the…