Month: December 2010

  • Afro-Mexico: Dancing between Myth and Reality University of Texas Press December 2010 183 pages 62 b&w illus, 14 color photos 7 x 10 in. Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-292-72324-5 Anita González, Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Theatre Arts State University of New York, New Paltz Photographs by George O. Jackson and José Manuel Pellicer Foreword by…

  • 4203W-01 – Racial Passing, Masquerade, and Transformation in African American Literature, Law, Film, and Culture University of Connecticut Fall 2010 Martha Cutter, Associate Professor of English What is “race”? What is “whiteness”? What is “blackness”? What does it mean to be “mixed-race” or “multi-racial” in the US? This course will examine what racial passing—people who…

  • English 39695-001 ST: Racial Crossings Kent State University 2006 Martha Cutter, Associate Professor of English This course will examine literary and cultural treatments of individuals, authors, and characters who cross from one race to another, and sometimes also from one gender to another. This crossing may be metaphorical—for example, a white writer may attempt to…

  • Media and Performance in Racial Passing: 2007 Heterodox Identities – LCST 2007 A Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts Spring 2009 Orville Lee, Assistant Professor of Sociology Racial passing is a ubiquitous and contentious feature of social and cultural life in the United States. Taking “passing” as an object of analysis, this…

  • “Whiteness in the Novels of Charles W. Chesnutt” is the first study to focus exclusively on Chesnutt’s novels. Examining the three published in Chesnutt’s lifetime—”The House Behind the Cedars,” “The Marrow of Tradition,” and “The Colonel’s Dream”—as well as his posthumously published novels, this study explores the dilemma of a black writer who wrote primarily…

  • Between boxes the Burr Kent State University Fall 2005 pages 50-55 Story by Jessica Rothschuh Photo illustration by Clarissa Westmeyer Photos by Lauren Arendt For some multiracial students, college becomes a time to discover their heritages and shape their identities HER DARK HAIR IS PULLED BACK IN BRAIDS, LEAVING HER FACE OPEN, TWO large, dark…

  • World Premiere of “Family Portrait in Black and White” at 2011 Sundance Film Festival Family Portrait in Black and White 2011 Interfilm Productions, Inc. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Directed by: Julia Ivanova Producted by Boris Ivanov OLGA NENYA is a foster mother to SIXTEEN BLACK ORPHANS in Ukraine—where 99.9% of the population is white and…

  • American Mixed-Race Literature: Cultural History, Precursors, Identities, and Forms of Expression Purdue University 2004 116 pages Publication Number: AAT 3166693 ISBN: 9780542022999 Gino Michael Pellegrini, Adjust Assistant Professor of English Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California This dissertation focuses on recent instances of mixed race literature in American culture such as Danzy Senna’s novel Caucasia, Rebecca…

  • From Manenberg to Soweto: race and coloured identity in the black consciousness poetry of James Matthews  African Studies Volume 62, Issue 2 (December 2003) pages 171-186 DOI: 10.1080/0002018032000148740 Mohamed Adhikari, Associate Professor of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town The Black Consciousness poetry of James Matthews, internationally recognised Coloured writer from the Cape Flats, reflects…

  • Race Classification at the University of KwaZulu-Natal: Purposes, Sites and Practices IOLS‐Research, Dr. Shaun Ruggunan and ccrri For: Centre for Critical Research on Race and Identity (ccrri) University of Kwazulu-Natal 2010-11-08 59 pages Race classification has long been a feature of South African life, in daily life and its cognitive processes, and also in formal…