Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts Volume 4, Issue 1, The Intersection of Race and Gender, explores the varied ways that race and gender identities interact across the globe, to show some of the consequences that attach to those interactions, and to cast some explanatory light on those dynamics.
This issue's classic piece is “Movimientos de rebeldía y las culturas que traicionan,” from Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza.
Aino Rinhaug of the University of Oslo/University of London writes about the artistic aesthetic of Korean adoptees. In “Adoptee Aesthetics: A Gendered Discourse.”
The interview, “The Impact of Race and Gender,” is rich and varied thanks to the participation of several committed individuals who gave of their time and experience to answer our questions.
Anne Harris, lecturer at the school of education at Victoria University, explores these voices in "I Ain’t No Girl: Representation and Reconstruction of the 'Found Girls” of Sudan.'”
In “Race, Gender, and Immigration in the Informal Economy,” Juhu Thukral, director of law and advocacy at The Opportunity Agenda, examines the realities of women workers of color in the U.S. information economy.
Controls put in place by the Brazilian state were meant to create a homogeneous national body and identity, but anxiety over skin color and sexuality were hardly eliminated, as Lorraine Leu explains in “Performing Race and Gender in Brazil: Karim Ainouz’s Madame Satã (2002).”
The increasing visibility of multi-racial individuals prompted Andra Basu to examine the gender differences and similarities on campus. Basu presents her findings in “The Role of Gender in the Experiences of Biracial College Students.”
Kellie Bean’s “Twenty-Four Notes on Appalachian Women Blogging” discusses the “ethnicity that is not one” by examining the outputs and attitudes of women who self-identify as Appalachian. These woman write about what they hold dear, what they wish to rebel against, and what they reaffirm as residents of the long thin strip of often-forgotten America known as Appalachia.
In “Thoughts on LGBTI Activism, Race, and Gender in a Kenyan Context,” Akinyi Margareta Ocholla volunteers for Minority Women in Action (MWA), an organization that works for the rights of lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and intersex women in Kenya.
The thoughts and experiences of three women, collected in the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives (DALN) are offered. The narratives were collected as part of the Literary Narratives of Black Columbus, an ongoing project designed to collect, preserve, and share the rich history of individual black citizens’ literacy practices and values in their homes, families, churches, and community centers within Columbus, Ohio.
Included is a "Fact Sheet on Gender: Selected Comparisons", which draws from a variety of sources to try to broaden reader understanding of attitudes and facts about men and women around the globe.
Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts 4.1 will ship in February.
