Deconstructing Zoe: Performing Race
∴ Rosa Fong Deconstructing Zoe: Performing Race: In her landmark study of gender, Judith Butler suggests that gender is ‘performed, manufactured through a […]
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The Everyday Consumption of “Whiteness”: The Gaikokujin-fū (Foreign-Like) Hair Trend in Japan
∴ Elisa Ivana Pellicanò In feminist literature, the beauty and the fashion industries have at times been criticized for being one of the means […]
Racism or Race Play: A Conceptual Investigation of the Race Play Debates
∴ Susanne Schotanus On the ninth of February 2017, erotic video platform ManyVids (MV) caused a scandal among their followers on Twitter when a […]
“Blood is Thicker than Water”: The Materialization of the Racial Body in Fascist East Africa
∴ Angelica Pesarini Introduction One of the major issues with the perception of “race” in modern Italy refers to what Alessandro Portelli defines as […]
“O Mother Race”: Race, Italian Colonialism and the Fight to Keep Ethiopia Independent
∴ Caroline Waldron Merithew In 1896, after the Ethiopian victory over the Italian army at Adowa, the poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar wrote his “Ode […]
Folk as the Sound of Self-Liberation: The Career and Performance Identity of Odetta
∴ Christine Kelly This paper examines the performance career of Odetta, an African-American folk singer, guitarist and political personality active from the early 1950s […]
Black Music Styles as Vehicles for Transnational and Trans-Racial Exchange: Perceptions of Blackness in the Music Scenes of London and Paris (1920s-1950s)
∴ Veronica Chincoli Intellectuals, writers, artists and historians have recognised a fundamental role of black genres in the general evolution of music because their […]