Selected papers from a conference held Sept. 26-28, 2002, hosted by the Race/Gender Resource Center at Bucknell University. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Transcending the grosser physical differences of race in contemporary society: an introduction / Linden Lewis -- Reading in the dark : race, literature, and the discourse of blackness / Glyne Griffith -- Constructing Black masculinity through the fiction of Gloria Naylor / Linden Lewis -- Pancakes, chocolate, and the trap of eternal servitude : a reading of race in the United States and Germany / Isabell Cserno -- German archaeologists and anthropologists in the Andes / Uta Kresse Raina -- Cinematic representation of the yellow peril / Lan Dong -- Past as prologue : rewriting and reclaiming the marked body in Michelle Cliff's Abeng and Margaret Cezair-Thompson's The true history of paradise / Carmen Gillespie -- The ground beneath our feet : Rastafari and the construction(s) of race / Sarah Daynes -- Living "in the shade of the white metropolis" : class dynamics in Chester Himes's Harlem / Norlisha Crawford -- An affirmation of cultural consciousness in August Wilson's Joe Turner's come and gone / Theda Wrede -- From the pulpit to the podium : marginality and the discourses of race / Andrea O'Reilly Herrera.
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