Shahila Zafar and Zaved Ahmed Khan (VIT): The Images of White Womanhood in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Bridget J. Crawford (Pace): The Currency of White Women's Hair in a Down Economy. Truly fat women don’t make it in Hollywood — unless they are black, that is. An interview with |http://www.alternet.org/sex/149386/"eroticrevolutionaries":blackwomen,sexualityandpopularculture/|Shayne Lee|, author of Erotic Revolutionaries: Black Women, Sexuality and Popular Culture. The importance of being cool in African-American culture: Is being cool a survival technique or just another drug in the 'hood? Racial segregation remains Chicago's most fundamental problem — why isn't it an issue in the mayor's race? A look at how white suburbanisation facilitated black homeownership in the mid-20th century. An interview with Clarence Lusane, author of The Black History of the White House. Jean Toomer's conflicted racial identity: He probably wanted to live as he pleased, outside the strictures of segregation; to be judged as a writer for his talents alone — and who can blame him? Let's stop being angry at biracial people: As black people, we can finally get away from the racist "one drop of blood" rule and celebrate our diversity. Opponents of the Education Department's new mixed-race categories say they are discriminatory — are they? An interview with Daniel J. Sharfstein, author of The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White. Whenever people protest that a child is "biracial", not Black, not only are they denying the impact that being classified as "non-white" has on the life of a child, but they are also teaching that child to embrace "whiteness" as an ideal.
