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Mlgpa News (October 2000), David Garrity
Mlgpa News (September 2000), David Garrity
Mlgpa News (September 2000), David Garrity
MLGPA news (1996-2004)
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[Introduction To] Slippery Characters: Ethnic Impersonators And American Identities, Laura Browder
[Introduction To] Slippery Characters: Ethnic Impersonators And American Identities, Laura Browder
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In the 1920s, black janitor Sylvester Long reinvented himself as Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, and Elizabeth Stern, the native-born daughter of a German Lutheran and a Welsh Baptist, authored the immigrant's narrative I Am a Woman--and a Jew; in the 1990s, Asa Carter, George Wallace's former speechwriter, produced the fake Cherokee autobiography, The Education of Little Tree. While striking, these examples of what Laura Browder calls ethnic impersonator autobiographies are by no means singular. Over the past 150 years, a number of American authors have left behind unwanted identities by writing themselves into new ethnicities.
Significantly, notes …
Mlgpa News (May 2000), David Garrity
Mlgpa News (April 2000), David Garrity
Common Circle For Human Rights, Vol.5, No.1 (March 2000), M. Lichtman
Common Circle For Human Rights, Vol.5, No.1 (March 2000), M. Lichtman
Common Circle for Human Rights (1997-2000)
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Mlgpa News (February 2000), David Garrity
Mlgpa News (February 2000), David Garrity
MLGPA news (1996-2004)
No abstract provided.
[Introduction To] Crossing The Color Line: Readings In Black And White, Suzanne W. Jones
[Introduction To] Crossing The Color Line: Readings In Black And White, Suzanne W. Jones
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The complex truth about the color line -- its destructive effects, painful legacy, clandestine crossings, possible erasure -- is revealed more often in private than in public and has sometimes been visited more easily by novelists than historians. In this tradition, Crossing the Color Line, a powerful collection of nineteen contemporary stories, speaks the unspoken, explores the hidden, and voices both fear and hope about relationships between blacks and whites. The volume opens with stories by Alice Adams, Toni Cade Bambara, Ellen Douglas, Reynolds Price, Ekwueme Michael Thelwell, and John A. Williams that focus on misunderstandings created by racial stereotypes …