...Laura Gillman Abstract This essay examines racial scripts as indicators of differentiated gender–race formations, expressed through a double-voiced discourse. White feminists deploy scripts to disaffiliate from a universalized gender but at the same time deny racial difference in order to maintain...

... cultural scripts maintained by the diaspora (Khanlou, Koh, and Mill 2008 ; Sadat 2008 ; Shakya, Guruge, and Hynie 2010 ; Hynie, Guruge, and Shakya 2012 ; Abbasi-Shavasi et al. 2012; Abbasi-Shavasi and Sadeghi 2014). In this article, we reveal the agency exercised by a select group of young, self...

.... The text is essentially a set of instructions offered by an adult (assumed to be a mother), laying out the script for the performance of womanhood in the fictional society in which the female child is expected to live and perform her gender. “Girl”'s emphasis on performative acts reiterates...

... of history, this essay argues that Southgate rewrites the script of black female desire beyond sexual subjugation and racial stereotype over the course of the novel's three generations of mothers and daughters. Southgate reveals the importance of black women controlling the narrative of black female...

... Saraswathi’s violent protest as a moment that destabilizes these normative identities and their related social scripts. The author further posits alternative visions of antinormative subjectivity in the novel that allow for Saraswathi’s survival after her rape. [email protected] Copyright © 2023...

... and Fanon’s respective experiences, and the resonances of them in the lives of other black people, demonstrate the ways that people transgress social scripts of appropriate interpersonal engagement when black bodies are present in space. Contemporarily black people continue to experience these transgressions...

... in the millennia-old caste system scripted by Brahmins who placed themselves at the top of the hierarchy and monopolized control over religious and secular knowledge. Writing in the 1930s, the Dalit theorist, visionary leader, and primary author of the Indian constitution, B. R. Ambedkar, said that the caste...

... scribbled into dumb air. There I thread letters into vowels that have no meaning; I scratch at their script. Three times I blow the Shofar.Three times the delicate skin of sound is stretched, and the cry, AllahuAkbar!trembles into ululation, voice within voice, as the layered nameless resurrect into song. 0...

... says, let’s play Mummy and Daddy and when it hurts, he warns you not to say anything to your parents. And you tell your father and the world fissures. And who do you turn to then? To shame, an internal script you learned before the sin, and rehearse again and again. Virgin...

.... Along sight-lines she hangs damask so worn and bleached it cannot hold in the interior, hangs a square of marble veined with script before the cavityof white fireplace, boxes, white cloth tacked on the wall. A room prefers to scatter, but remains composed under pressure like my language spoken...

... societies. In her analysis of the protagonists in Kincaid's classic short story and in the lesser known but highly touted work by Kempadoo, a Guyanese novelist, Bailey brings to light the tensions, contradictions, and subversive acts that undermine gendered/sexual scripts that are imposed on young women...

.... The quest to develop theoretical constructs that accommodate multivoiced discourses and pedagogies both within and across our communities is the subject of"Beyond the Shadow: Re-scripting Race in Women's Studies," by Laura Gilman. In this essay, the author argues for a "conjunctural approach" that brings...

... of color" (Alexander and Mohanty 1997,xiv). For Alexander and Mohanty, the "becoming woman of color" is a resistant becoming against the oppressive social-institutional and cultural-communal scripts that erase, dehumanize, or otherwise subordinate those classified as both "non-white" and "woman." Becoming...

... is double-edged for Cheng, as she defines it as the "internalization of discipline and rejection-and the installation of a scripted context of perception" (Cheng 2001, 17). Cheng asserts that to demonstrate American citizenship, racialized minorities must undergo an unending series of disciplinary...

... is double-edged for Cheng, as she defines it as the “internalization of discipline and rejection—and the installation of a scripted context of perception” (Cheng 2001 , 17). Cheng asserts that to demonstrate American citizenship, racialized minorities must undergo an unending series of disciplinary...

... called the "'strong Black woman' script" (Black and Peacock 2011). Although she was in Chicago and I was in North Carolina, we supported each other through phone calls and emails. We knew that the work in which we were engaging was critically important, but we were also daunted by thoughts that we may...

... ofboth anticolonial and intranational grievance. This context allows musical performance to be a pointed site for access to feminist critiques of national modes of representing gender and sexuality. But these national-legal scripts do not account for the complex differences and disjunctures...

..., suffering, and survival" (Harris-Lacewell 2001, 4). Strong black women "do it all" and without complaint. In other words, strong black women typically take on a social script that acknowledges them primarily when they tolerate the intolerable. Black feminists have consistently remarked on the uses...

... to be partly responsible for the cultivation of the Hausa-Fulfude tradition of ajamiwriting. Ajamirefers to African language literature written in the Arabic script, a tradition that first established itself in Madagascar and the East African Indian Ocean littoral, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries...

... especially for myself and possibly other young black girls to realize that we do not have to limit our sexuality to a single box. a.S. 2015) Jessica also realized that this conversation about sex and sexuality allowed her to think even further about the racist and sexist scripts she had been given to think...