Gender and Race

My First Experience at a Women-Only Conference by Grace Yia-Hei Kao

by Feminism and Religion

Originally published on the Feminism and Religion project

“This ain’t your daddy’s conference!”

I knew that I was going to be attending a totally different type of... more “This ain’t your daddy’s conference!”

I knew that I was going to be attending a totally different type of conference than I had ever been to before when I received the following instructions on additional items to pack: (1) my own mug with which to drink coffee or tea (“we will go green in this conference as much as possible”), (2) 3 oz. of water “from a source of nature near your home” to be offered during “opening worship,” and (3) a small, modest, pre-owned, homemade, or inexpensive “earth-honoring gift for exchange.”

"Seeing Immanent Difference: Lorna Simpson and the Face's Affect"

by Laurie Rodrigues

Published in _Rhizomes_, Issue 23 (April 2012).
Special Issue on Deleuze and Photography. Guest Editor, Michael Kramp.

"Seeing Immanent Difference: Lorna Simpson and the Face's Affect"

by Laurie Rodrigues

Published in _Rhizomes_, Issue 23 (April 2012).
Special Issue on Deleuze and Photography. Guest Editor, Michael Kramp.

Who is Asian?: Representing a Panethnic Continent in Community Activism

by Alan Wong

Wong, Alan. “Who is Asian?: Representing a Panethnic Continent in Community Activism” in Sexualities in Education: A Reader. Eds. Erica R. Meiners and Therese Quinn. New York: Peter Lang, 2012. 376-383. Print.

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Between 2004 and 2009, I served as the coordinator of Gay and Lesbian Asians of Montreal... more (First paragraph)

Between 2004 and 2009, I served as the coordinator of Gay and Lesbian Asians of Montreal (GLAM), a not-for-profit, volunteer-run community organization that functions as both a social and political support group for local lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ) Asians. During my tenure with GLAM, I attempted to broaden its membership in order to attract and be more inclusive of those who I felt were underrepresented in the group. In so doing, one major question surfaced: How could GLAM present itself as a unified Asian voice while still taking into account the diversity of ethnicities that comprised its membership? In other words, what strategies could GLAM employ to accommodate and bridge the various interests of a group of people defined by their continental affiliation without compromising their individual subjectivities? As I pondered this, I realized that coordinating GLAM required thinking outside the proverbial box if we were to grow and
become more than just another monolithic social clique in Montreal’s LGBTQ scene.

“Gendering Diasporic Migration in Erna Brodber’s Louisiana”

by Simone Drake

MaComère: Journal of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars. 8 (2006): 112-135.

Craig Brewer and Kara Walker: Sexing the Difference and Rebuilding the South

by Simone Drake

Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, special issue on gender and sexuality. 11.3 (2009): 230-252.

Visible Men: African American Boxers, the New Negro, and the Global Color Line

by Theresa Runstedtler

White Anglo-Saxon Hopes and Black Americans' Atlantic Dreams: Jack Johnson and the British Boxing Colour Bar

by Theresa Runstedtler

Working with women of color: An empowerment perspective.

by Lorraine Gutierrez

Developing Gender and Ethnically Relevant AIDS Prevention Interventions for High Risk Adolescents.

by Lorraine Gutierrez

Getting Tenure, Part I: It Took a Village by Grace Yia-Hei Kao

by Feminism and Religion

Feminism and Religion
Author: Grace Yia-Hei Kao

On December 1, 2011, the full professors at Claremont School of Theology unanimously recommended two of my colleagues... more On December 1, 2011, the full professors at Claremont School of Theology unanimously recommended two of my colleagues and me for tenure.  Provided that the Board of Trustees approves their recommendation and two extremes never come to pass (either “financial exigency” compels my institution to start laying off people willy-nilly or I do something professionally or morally egregious enough to be dismissed “for cause”), I now have a job for life! :) 

Cosmopolitan Memory in Europe’s ‘Backwaters’: Rethinking Civility

by Rodanthi Tzanelli

Book. Alternative webpage at: https://sites.google.com/site/rodanthisartsite/cosmopolitan-memory-in-europe-s-backwaters

Cosmopolitan Memory in Europe’s ‘Backwaters’ reconsiders the definitional relationships of ‘national character’ and... more Cosmopolitan Memory in Europe’s ‘Backwaters’ reconsiders the definitional relationships of ‘national character’ and ‘national heritage’ in the context of Western industrial modernity. Taking as a case study the Greek islands of Skiathos and Skopelos which served as cinematic locations for the blockbuster Mamma Mia! (2008), the book explores how national identity - once shaped by political, cultural and religious practices - can now be reduced to little more than an ideal, created and sold globally by Western industries such as tourism and film.

Tzanelli argues that the film encouraged the development of regional competitions that further enhanced the emotive potential of a Greek nationalist discourse that projects the blame for regional favouritism onto Western agents and the nation-state itself. It also takes into consideration the historical background of this controversy, which finds roots in the religious heritage of the South-eastern Mediterranean region – in particular, the notions of Byzantine Christianity which the Greeks used to set against the Islamic traditions of their Ottoman colonisers to affirm their European civility.

The "Natives Uncivilize Me": Missionaries and Interracial Intimacy in Early New Zealand

by Angela Wanhalla

in Missionaries, Indigenous Peples and Cultural Exchange, edited by Patricia Grimshaw and Andrew May, Sussex Academic Press, 2010, pp. 24-36.

Gender and Race Representation in Casual Games

by Donghee Yvette Wohn

Wohn, D. Y. (2011). Gender and race representation in casual games. Sex Roles, 65, 198-207

This paper examines gender and race representation in casual games through content analysis. Study 1 looks at gender... more This paper examines gender and race representation in casual games through content analysis. Study 1 looks at gender and race representation in a random sample (N = 200) of casual games retrieved from the websites of the largest five casual game distributors. Study 2 looks at the most popular games on websites of the same five multinational distributors (N = 54) and analyzes how primary characters are portrayed in terms of appearance and personality. Females are overly represented as primary characters but chi-square analyses indicate no significant differences between sexes in terms of how they are portrayed: of note, neither males nor females are depicted in a sexual manner. These results conflict with previous studies of gender representation in game characters: this paper suggests that sampling methodology and the relatively new trend of casual games excluded this subset of games from prior research. Implications are discussed using a social cognitive framework.

South Asian women and political organization

by Shaminder Takhar

Published in edited book: Puwar, N. and Raghuram, P. (eds) (2003 South Asian Women in the Diaspora, Oxford: Berg.

A War Within World War II: Racialized Masculinity and Citizenship of Japanese Americans and Korean Colonial Subjects

by Jeffrey Yamashita

Duce/Divo Masculinity, Racial Identity, and Politics among Italian Americans in 1920s New York City

by Giorgio Bertellini

Italy in early American cinema

by Giorgio Bertellini

Music After the Inferno: Gender, Race, and the Chicago Fire of 1871

by Katie Graber

Presented at the 2010 Society for Ethnomusicology conference, Los Angeles, California.

The aftermath of Chicago’s Great Fire of 1871 marked a new beginning in the effort to elevate the status of the city... more The aftermath of Chicago’s Great Fire of 1871 marked a new beginning in the effort to elevate the status of the city around the nation and the world.  The widely circulated images of chaos and destruction after the fire furthered the city’s reputation as undeveloped and disorderly.  The disaster quickly took on gendered and ethnic associations, from drawings of women fleeing burning homes in nightgowns to accusations of one Mrs. O’Leary’s cow starting the flames in the immigrant slums.  The remedy to these feminized and foreign portrayals of Chicago was to rebuild in a way that emphasized virile industry and deracialized (white) refinement.  The restoration of musical structures (such as theaters and concert halls) and organizations (including professional and amateur music clubs) was an important part of this process.  Journalists and music critics heralded the flourishing of classical music performances after the fire – however, their accounts betrayed incongruities as they contended with the increasing feminization of classical music and its foreign European origins.  The rebuilding of Chicago after the fire has been documented and studied extensively; what have been less analyzed are the contradictory roles of gender, race, and ethnicity that converged in the discourse about musical refinement and its ensuing effects on the image of the city.  Ethnomusicological studies of American music need to build on an understanding of these nineteenth-century ideas of race, gender, and refinement in order to continually interrogate categories such as folk, classical, popular, immigrant, ethnic, and even American.

"Emma and Fatima Hamilton: Two Forms of Attitude." Co-written with Elise Bruhl. Race, Romanticism, and the Atlantic. Ed. Paul Youngquist. Ashgate Press, 2012.

by Michael Gamer