December 2006
Trinh T. Minh-ha essay
by jlesageNot You/Like You: Post-Colonial Women and the Interlocking Questions of Identity and Difference, by Trinh T. Minh-ha
November 2006
Difference, Diversity and Nomadic Subjectivity
by jlesageBraidotti is a theorist combining the insights of Donna Haraway with postcolonial theory; this earlier (1998) essay still has relevance today. Useful in teaching.
SF Gate: Sex trafficking from South Korea to US
by jlesageDuring their trip to South Korea, Chronicle reporter Meredith May and staff photographer Deanne Fitzmaurice found that while the public sex industry has slowed, parts of the business has gone underground and is still alive and well. Audio/slideshow in 4 p
"Cyberfeminism with a difference" by Rosi Braidotti
by jlesagean important essay building on the work of Donna Haraway, emphasizing the kinds of empoverishment that come with globalization, and the possibilities for new forms of collective identity in cyberspace, while eschewing utopianism.
Radical Graphics
by jlesagelarge collection organized by thematic and political categories; useful for office door poster, flyer, or demonstration
Place: Cultural, Disability, Ethnic, Media, Postcolonial, Race Studies
by jlesagehuge multi-page database of links on space and place in cultural geography as applicable to interdisciplinary studies
October 2006
Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race
by jlesagecurrent issue has free articles, progressive social geography
Literary Resources on the Net (Lynch)
by jlesageupdated 2006. Topics include historical periods for British and U.S. Literature, Theatre and Drama, Theory, Women's Literature & Feminism, Ethnicities & Nationalities, Hypertext
Carnival of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
by jlesageaccumulation of blog entries on important postcolonial theorist
September 2006
De una de las mujeres que amo. | Negra cubana... tenĂa que ser
by jlesageCuban woman's blog with article about the representation of black women in advertising, in Spanish
Film Bibliographies: Media Resources Center UCB
by jlesageGood place to start research for both scholars and students, comprehensive resource collection for film studies at UC-Berkeley: Bibliographies here for many film/TV Topics,Themes, Genres, Directors; on National Cinemas; and on Individual Films/Videos; Ful
Film Studies Resources - Academic Info
by jlesageuseful site with lots of resources: bibliographies, "digital library" links, academic programs listed; full text artices; Online Film Collections, Archives, Themes: women, genre, theory; Film History, silent and sound eras, International--by region; Indiv
July 2006
Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media
by jlesageanalyses with extensive visual examples; archives of print issues since 1974
June 2006
EServer: Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
by jlesagelarge bibliography with links to many full text essays--american studies, critical legal studies, literature, marxism, media, popular culture, postcolonialism, queer, race, women's studies
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