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Decolonizing Othello in search of black feminist North American identities: Djanet Sears' Harlem duet and Toni Morrison's Desdemona

2017

<p>The plays <em>Harlem duet </em>(1997) by African Canadian playwright Djanet Sears and <em>Desdemona </em>(2012) by Toni Morrison signify upon European texts aiming to carve out a new definition of what it means to be black in North America. Therefore both texts make for interesting reading in the study of (black) identity construction within US and Canadian contexts for, by revising Shakespeare’s <em>Othello</em>, they rethink and rewrite a social and racial reality unrelentingly disrupted by difference and hybridity. Sears’ play establishes a specific reading of Canadianness in dialogue with African America to erect a possibility of healing and …

Cultural StudiesSubjectivityLinguistics and LanguageLiterature and Literary Theorymedia_common.quotation_subjectIdentity (social science)Feminist selfLanguage and LinguisticsFeminismEducationEthosAfrican CanadianHybridity0504 sociologyBlack identitySociologyAfrican Americanmedia_common05 social sciences050401 social sciences methodsGender studies06 humanities and the artsDemocracy060402 drama & theaterNorth AmericaOthello0604 artsCultural pluralismDramaInternational Journal of English Studies
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Black German identities

2009

This study examines the reliability and validity of a German version of the Multidimensional Inventory of Black Identity (MIBI) in a sample of 170 Black Germans. The internal consistencies of all subscales are at least moderate. The factorial structure of the MIBI, as assessed by principal component analysis, corresponds to a high degree to the supposed underlying dimensional structure. Construct validity was examined by analyzing (a) the intercorrelations of the MIBI subscales and (b) the correlations of the subscales with external variables. Predictive validity was assessed by analyzing the correlations of three MIBI subscales with the level of intra-racial contact. All but one predictio…

Predictive validityExternal variableBlack European studiesracial identity[SHS.PSY]Humanities and Social Sciences/PsychologySocial environmentConstruct validityNegative associationBlack identitylanguage.human_languageGermanBlack GermansIdentity (mathematics)[ SHS.PSY ] Humanities and Social Sciences/PsychologyAnthropologylanguageBlack identityMultidimensional Inventory of Black IdentityPsychologySocial psychologyApplied PsychologyThe Journal of Black Psychology
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Easy Rawlins' Identity: a Unique African American Male Detective

2011

Fotografía: "Detective", Untipografico.

black identitylcsh:French literature - Italian literature - Spanish literature - Portuguese literatureComunidad afroamericanaDiscriminaciónIdentidad negralcsh:Literature (General)Easy RawlinsLiteratura negralcsh:PN1-6790lcsh:PQ1-3999DiscriminationBlack identityAfrican American communityWalter MosleyMulticulturalismediscrimination.
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