Day: September 6, 2010

  • Africa’s Legacy in Mexico: The Photographs of Tony Gleaton Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles Laband Art Gallery 2007-09-09 through 2007-11-18 Africa’s Legacy in Mexico features forty-five black and white photographs from a series of portraits of African Mexicans by Tony Gleaton. Taken in the late 1980s and early 1990s, primarily in three villages along the…

  • Laughing To Keep From Crying: Resisting “Race” Through Irony Tympanum: A Journal of Comparative Literary Studies Number 4, (2000) issn# 1522-7723 Ronald Sundstrom, Director and Associate Professor of African American Studies University of San Francisco He wanted to rise-a malicious, ironic voice insisted that he rise-and, at once, to leave this temple and go out…

  • Racial Ambiguity and Relationship Formation in the United States: Theoretical and Practical Considerations Journal of Social and Personal Relationships Volume 20, Number 2 (April 2003) pages 153-169 DOI: 10.1177/02654075030202002 Angela D. James, Associate Professor of African American Studies Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles M. Belinda Tucker, Social Psychologist and Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences…

  • Racial Etiquette: Nella Larsen’s Passing and the Rhinelander Case Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism Volume 5, Number 2, 2005 pages 1-29 E-ISSN: 1547-8424 Print ISSN: 1536-6936 DOI: 10.1353/mer.2005.0013 Miriam Thaggert, Associate Professor of English and African-American Studies University of Iowa In Passing Nella Larsen seems to suggest that identity is a hazy fiction one tells that…

  • Gothic Discourse Meets Hybridity in the United States [Book Review] H-net Reviews July 2003 Jeanne Cortiel Justin D. Edwards. Gothic Passages: Racial Ambiguity and the American Gothic. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2003. xxxiii + 145 pp., ISBN 978-0-87745-824-1. In the past decade, gothic studies have produced a number of new readers, research handbooks,…