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Jan. 9 | Call for papers: Identities and Technocultures
A 2-day conference about American culture and technologies that examines how new technologies dominate and define Americaness in the US and abroad. Co-sponsored by the University of Iowa Center for Ethnic Studies and the Arts (CESA) and the Mid-America American Studies Association (MAASA).
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Hodges, Anita Poluga. "Collective Visions of Women: Representations of Gender and Race in the Writings of Women of Color, 1900-1940," American Studies, University of Hawaii, Manoa, May 1998.
This dissertation focuses on gender, race, and representation in the literary works of six women of color, Edith Maude Eaton (Sui Sin Far), Winnifred Eaton (Onoto Watanna), Zitkala-Sä, Mourning Dove, Nella Larsen, and Marita Bonner. From their perspective on the margins of mainstream American culture, they explored early twentieth-century representations of women of their own racial and ethnic background as well as those of dissimilar heritage. Long before contemporary feminists acknowledged hybridity, heterogeneity and multiplicity, these authors celebrated women as empowered agents, uplifted the status of women and acknowledged the interaction of class, race, mixed-racial identity and gender upon the formation of female identity
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