Un diálogo íntimo entre raza y género en el Centenario del Sufragio Femenino by Mimi Yang

“…Con un enfoque interdisciplinario anclado en los estudios históricos y culturales, el artículo analiza la división entre los dos elementos viscerales pertinentes a la identidad cultural (género y raza en el Movimiento por el Sufragio de la Mujer, dibuja un patrón de su intersección y traza una «doble conciencia» (tomando prestado el término de W.E.B. Du Bois). El artículo argumenta que el movimiento por el sufragio femenino fue de hecho un paso gigantesco hacia el ideal estadounidense de igualdad de género, pero no alcanzó la igualdad racial. …”
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Race and place : green collar jobs and the movement for economic democracy in Los Angeles and Cleveland by Song, Lily Kyung Bin

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Cross-Gendering the Racial Memory by Marlon B. Ross

“…Opting to follow the lead of other black male cross-gendering writers—most notably James Weldon Johnson, W. E. B. Du Bois, Walter White, and Wallace Thurman—Gaines erects Miss Jane as a she/male icon who prophesies the integrated, interracial, harmonious United States nation that emerges ironically out of black folk’s capacity to endure and transcend an entrenched history of state-endorsed racial violence and abjection. …”
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Systemic racism in data practices by Trevor Watkins, Jonathan O. Cain

“…And draws a 19th-century example of how it expressly connects to black lives post-emancipation noting "W. E. B. Du Bois certainly thought that black history and print history worked in tandem. …”
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The Languages of Afrofuturism by Adriano Elia

“…The paper aims to consider the different languages of Afrofuturism: music (Sun Ra), visual arts (Basquiat), film (John Coney’s <em>Space is the Place</em>) and especially literature − proto-Afrofuturist fiction such as W. E. B. Du Bois’s short story “The Comet” (1920) and more recent examples such as Ralph Ellison’s <em>Invisible Man</em> (1952) and Octavia E. …”
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Rewriting the genealogy of minstrelsy for modernity: “Cry and sing, walk and rage, scream and dance” by Mendelssohn, M

“…W. E. B. Du Bois’s Dark Princess (1928) pointedly uses Spirituals and dandyism to interrogate cultural hierarchies. …”