Tag: Stephanie Li

  • The Trouble with Post-Blackness Columbia University Press February 2015 288 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780231169356 Hardcover ISBN: 9780231169349 E-book ISBN: 9780231538503 Edited by: Houston A. Baker, Distinguished University Professor Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee K. Merinda Simmons, Associate Professor of Religious Studies University of Alabama An America in which the color of one’s skin no longer matters…

  • Signifying without Specifying: Racial Discourse in the Age of Obama Rutgers University Press 2011-11-01 218 Pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-5143-2 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-5144-9 eBook ISBN: 978-0-8135-5210-1 Stephanie Li, Professor of English Indiana University, Bloomington On the campaign trail, Barack Obama faced a difficult task—rallying African American voters while resisting his opponents’ attempts to frame him as…

  • Resistance, Silence, and Placées: Charles Bon’s Octoroon Mistress and Louisa Picquet American Literature Volume 79, Number 1 (March 2007) pages 85-112 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-2006-072 Stephanie Li, Assistant Professor of English University of Rochester In 1850, Mary Walker, a free woman of color, filed a petition in the Fourth District Court of New Orleans to enslave herself…