Tag: Jennifer DeVere Brody

  • Clare Kendry’s “True” Colors: Race and Class Conflict in Nella Larsen’s Passing Callaloo Volume 15, Number 4 (Autumn, 1992) pages 1053-1065 Jennifer DeVere Brody, Professor of Drama Stanford University Interpretations of Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929) often have failed to explain the complex symbolism of the narrative. Indeed, dismissive or tendentious criticisms of the text have…

  • Creole: The History and Legacy of Louisiana’s Free People of Color Louisiana State University Press August 2000 344 pages Trim: 6 x 9 , Illustrations: 14 halftones Paper ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-2601-1 Edited by: Sybil Kein (born Consuela Marie Moore), Distinguished Professor of English Emerita University of Michigan The word Creole evokes a richness rivaled only by…

  • Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country Duke University Press 2006 392 pages 7 illustrations, 1 table Edited by: Tiya Miles, Professor of American Culture, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Native American Studies University of Michigan Sharon Patricia Holland, Associate Professor of English; African & African American Studies Duke University Contributors: Joy…

  • Meet the New Faculty: Jennifer Brody Duke Today The Duke Community’s Daily News and Information Resource Duke University 2008-10-22 Andrea Fereshteh Exploring the intersection of race, gender and art Durham, North Carolina — From a very early age, Jennifer Brody was curious about the intersection of art, gender and race. She recalls a time as…

  • Lecture by Professor Jennifer DeVere Brody Theater Dance & Performance Studies University of California at Berkeley Durham Studio Theater (Dwinelle Hall) Thursday, 2010-02-18 16:00 PST (Local Time) Sponsor: Department of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies Jennifer DeVere Brody is a Professor of African and African American Studies at Duke University where she teaches cultural and…

  • Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture Duke University Press 1998 272 pages 13 b&w photographs Cloth ISBN: 0-8223-2105-X, ISBN13: 978-0-8223-2105-7 Paperback ISBN: 0-8223-2120-3, ISBN13 978-0-8223-2120-0 Jennifer DeVere Brody, Professor, African and African American Studies Duke University Using black feminist theory and African American studies to read Victorian culture, Impossible Purities looks at the construction…