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New Black Feminist Criticism, 1985-2000
By Barbara Christian / Edited by Gloria Bowles, M. Giulia Fabi, and Arlene R. Keizer University of Illinois Press Imagine. You are Barbara Christian. It’s the mid-1970s, and you’re trying to write a dissertation on black women writers, yet there is only one book-length study of black women’s history for which you can use to place these writers in a historical context. When you seek to publish your first book on black women writers, you receive rejection letter after rejection letter before Greenwood [...]
Love Without Boundary: Black Women And Dating Outside the Box Hosted by Black Women Who Date Interracially
Our positive and progressive panel discussion will explore the topics and issues black women face while being romantically involved or married to a man outside of her race. “With new census information about the increasing numbers of black female interracial marriages and its coverage in the press, this panel is for black women to focus on these issues and others that matter to them,” says Nikki Doughty, founder of Black Women Who Date Interracially and CEO of Multimixx, an interracial dating events [...]
Black Feminism in Contemporary Drama
By Lisa M. Anderson University of Illinois Press Lisa M. Anderson’s new book follows up on her important study Mammies No More: The Changing Image of Black Women on Stage and Screen (1997), which critically examined the myths and stereotypes that dominated stage and screen representations of African American women: the “mama on the couch,” the “tragic mulatta,” the distorted portrayals of black female sexuality. Her final chapter in that work remarked on the beginnings of a black feminist [...]
Text Finger Painting
There is a finger painting option in Photoshop CS 3 which can be used for a great graphic effect. Step 1 : Open a new white layer. Step 2 : Make sure that the Foreground is set to Black and Background to White. If it is not press 'X' on the keyboard, then 'D'. This will reset the default Foreground and Background colors. Step 3 : Press ALT+BACKSPACE. This will fill the layer with the Foreground color or Black. Step 4 : Click the New Layer button and a new layer forms i.e. Layer 1. Step 5 : Click the Smudge [...]
Fire with Photoshop
You can create realistic looking fire in photoshop in a few steps, which you can save and use with other images. Step 1 : Open a new white layer in Photoshop. Step 2 : Make sure that the Foreground is set to Black and Background to White. If it is not press 'x' then 'd' on your keyboard to set it to the default. Step 3 : Press ALT+BACKSPACE to fill the white layer with the Foreground color i.e. Black. Step 4 : Go to Filter>Render Clouds. This is how your image will look like. Step 5 : Go to [...]
Ravishing ‘Rebel’ Bipasha Basu launches Kinetic Flyte
Looking trendy and ravishing, brand ambassador Bipasha Basu launched the Kinetic-SYM Flyte 125cc advanced scooter at a press event at Taj Lands End in Mumbai, Friday, December 28. Bipasha impressed in blue stretch pants, black cap sleeve jersey top under a black vest and black stilettos calf high suede boots. She wore a necklace with the word [...]
Brain cells will collide
Had a dream last night. And folk here don’t dream much. Don’t know if I was on Meet the Press or at a presidential debate. Guess all yawl folk precariously (depending on uncertain premises) suggesting I be a candidate for the Presidency or even an advisor of some form. Any who, here goes the dream. First shouts out to Pretty Black Gold and At-alien (4 this pic of how I get down- an no I didn’t have my gat, it was at shop, sorry pretty black for when in Rome do as the Romans) for the love – or should [...]
Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones
By Carole Boyce Davies Duke University Press Still unknown to many, the life story of Claudia Jones is equally inspiring and heartbreaking. Guilty of being everything she was labeled, Jones maintained many overlapping identities - feminist, Black Nationalist, Communist, and journalist - working in the early to mid-20th century on a wide array of equal rights causes. Her activism a precursor to much of the 1960s American counterculture resistance, for which we often remember recent history’s leaders of [...]
Radical Sisters: Second-Wave Feminism and Black Liberation in Washington, D.C.
By Anne M. Valk University of Illinois Press It’s been oft repeated that feminism and Black Liberation were not always allied movements, and depending on who you ask, they remain fragmented campaigns today. In Radical Sisters , Anne M. Valk seeks to disrupt this myth and show the interconnectedness of these political movements that have, in fact, been allied since the 1970s. Academic in its analysis and format, Radical Sisters reminds me of a text I would hope to one day find being used in Women’s [...]
Mario Batali Enameled Italian Kitchen Panini Grill Press, Chianti, Make Panini Sandwiches, Pork Chops, Vegetables, Fruit, Meat, Grilling, Cast Iron
Mario Batali Enameled Italian Kitchen Panini Grill and Press, Chianti this Panini Press and Grill Set, shown here in Chianti, makes an awesome addition to any kitchen as well as a wonderful gift for friends or family. Constructed from durable enameled cast iron, it features a generous grilling surface perfect to make panini sandwiches, pork chops, vegetables, fruit and so much more! Its black matte interior will not react to acidic foods and is incredibly easy to clean thanks to a lovely porcelain enamel [...]