Day: July 6, 2010

  • ENGLISH 261E: Mixed Race Literature in the U.S. and South Africa (seminar) Stanford University Department of English Winter Quarter, 2010-2011 Michele Elam, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English and Olivier Nomellini Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education Grant Parker, Associate Professor of Classics Stanford Univeristy As scholar Werner Sollors recently suggested, novels, poems,…

  • If blackness in America has been defined broadly enough to claim me as one of its own, that still leaves the question of why I claim my blackness. I could call myself mixed race or even Latina/Hispanic.  I certainly recognize that I am multi-racial, but I don’t feel a common bond with mixed people simply…