Day: March 5, 2012

  • Cup O’Doodles The Pennsylvania Gazette University of Pennsylvania Volume 109, Number 6 (July/August 2011) pages 54-57 Molly Petrilla Artist Gwyneth Leech C’81 started drawing on  used paper cups as a distraction when she  got “antsy,” but “then it began to really take over.”  A few hundred cups later, she spent six weeks doing the same…

  • None of the Above Filmakers Library (an imprint of Alexander Street Press) 1994 23 minutes Erika Surat Andersen University of Southern California None of the Above is a documentary about people of mixed racial heritage based on the filmmaker’s own search for identity and community. Ms. Andersen, whose mother is (Asian) Indian and father is…

  • Rumblings of The Earth: Wifredo Lam, His Work and Words Filmakers Library (an imprint of Alexander Street Press) 1996 23 minutes Denise Byrd Awards San Antonio CINEFEST, 1996 Latin American Studies Association, 1995 The Afro-Cuban artist Wifredo Lam played a leading role in bringing the art of the non-white world to the attention of the…

  • Seoul II Soul Filmakers Library (an imprint of Alexander Street Press) 1999 25 minutes Hak J. Chung Produced at USC School of Cinema & Television Directed by Hak J. Chung Korean American filmmaker Hak J. Chung explores his own identity by taking a close look at a very engaging family. The Yates’ household consists of…

  • After Traveling to Virginia during the Civil War as a field illustrator for the New York journal Harper’s Weekly, Winslow Homer returned to this area toward the end of the Reconstruction period to paint primarily around Richmond and Petersburg. Having abandoned his career as illustrator to devote himself exclusively to painting, Homer sketched outdoors near…

  • Fearless Music: Garland Jeffreys ’65 Syracuse University Magazine Volume 28, Number 3 (Fall/Winter 2011) David Marc From his ’70s hit “Wild in the Streets” to his latest album, legendary singer-songwriter Garland Jeffreys has taken on life’s big issues with his own eclectic brand of music From the pages of The New Yorker to deep inside…

  • Jarocho’s Soul: Cultural Identity and Afro-Mexican Dance University Press of America (an Imprint of Rowman & Littlefield) February 2004 182 pages Size: 5 1/2 x 7 3/4 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-7618-2775-7 Anita González, Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Theatre Arts State University of New York, New Paltz Brown-skinned men and women move across Mexico’s national…

  • In this exploration of race and racism, noted scholar Lewis R. Gordon offers a critique of recent scholarship in postcolonial Africana philosophy and critical race theory, and suggests alternative models that respond to what he calls our contemporary neocolonial age; an age in which cultural, intellectual, and economic forms of colonial domination persist.

  • Vietnamese Amerasians: A Study Of Identity Construction University of Texas, Arlington December 2010 78 pages Ky-Giao C. Nguyen Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Arlington in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Sociology “We define who we are by defining…

  • ‘Amerasians’ in the Philippines fight for recognition Cable News Network (CNN) 2012-03-03 Sunshine Lichauco de Leon Manila, Philippines (CNN) — When Susie Lopez, 43, was a little girl she would run outside her home in Angeles City, near the U.S. Clark Airbase in the Philippines, every time she heard a plane fly by. “I would…