Day: January 30, 2012

  • Opinion: What does Blackness look like? Cable News Network (CNN) In America: You define America. What defines you? 2012-01-21 Yaba Blay, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Editor’s note: Yaba Blay, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of Africana studies who teaches courses at Lafayette College. Her research focuses on black identity, with…

  • Crossing the color line Baylor University August 2011 107 pages Alisha Hash A Thesis Approved by the Department of History Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Baylor University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts Miscegenation, a word not coined until the Civil War, has been an intrinsic part…

  • This first full-length biography of the first published Asian North American fiction writer portrays both the woman and her times.

  • Biracial/Bicultural Identity in the Writings of Sui Sin Far MELUS Volume 26, Number 2 (Summer 2001) pages 159-186 Vanessa Holford Diana, Professor of English Westfield State Unviversity, Westfield, Massachusetts At the turn into the twentieth century, American culture witnessed related literary and political shifts through which marginalized voices gained increased strength despite the severe racism…

  • Stand Back Ladies and Gentlemen! The Wonders of the World! Conformity and Confrontation in Winnifred Eaton’s Freak Show Setting in “The Loves of Sakura Jiro and the Three-Headed Maid” Winnifred Eaton Project Symposium 2007-03-15 through 2007-03-16 Owens Art Gallery Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada 2007-03-16 Christine Mayor Mount Allison University The freak show…

  • Race, Sex, and Social Order in Early New Orleans Johns Hopkins University Press 2009 352 pages 7 halftones Hardback ISBN: 9780801886805 Jennifer M. Spear, Associate Professor of History Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Winner, 2009 Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Lousiana History, The Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Historical Association…