Gwen Bergner
Biographic Data
| ID | 249037 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gwen Bergner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gwen |
| FAMILY NAME | Bergner |
| SIGNATURE | BERGNER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | West Virginia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Collusions of Fact and Fiction
Performing Work
In this article I argue that Douglas Sirk’s maternal melodrama, Imitation of Life (1959), advances an ideology whereby Black women are equated with and consigned to domestic labor. The film features two mother-daughter pairs, one Black and one white. The Black mother, Annie, works as a maid for the white mother. Annie’s light-skinned daughter, Sarah Jane, passes as white to avoid following her mother’s condition. But Annie’s death at the film’s e…
Runaway Genres
Reviewed by: Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery by Yogita Goyal, and: Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination ed. by Bertram D. Ashe and Ilka Saal Gwen Bergner Yogita Goyal. Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery. New York: New York UP, 2019. 271 pp. $30.00. Eds. Bertram D. Ashe and Ilka Saal. Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination. Seattle: U of Washington P, 2020. 248 pp. $30.00. If Stephen Best wrote "the epitaph of the …
Introduction
Black Children, White Preference
In Brown v. Board of Education the Supreme Court cited psychologist Kenneth B. Clark for evidence that segregation damaged black children's self-esteem and hampered their ability to learn. Clark and his wife Mamie had tested black children's "racial preference" by asking them to choose between black dolls and white dolls, interpreting the choice of white dolls as evidence of damaged self-esteem. After Brown , the Clarks' studies set the parameter…
Taboo Subjects
Black Children, White Preference
In Brown v. Board of Education the Supreme Court cited psychologist Kenneth B. Clark for evidence that segregation damaged black children's self-esteem and hampered their ability to learn. Clark and his wife Mamie had tested black children's "racial preference" by asking them to choose between black dolls and white dolls, interpreting the choice of white dolls as evidence of damaged self-esteem. After Brown , the Clarks' studies set the parameter…
Introduction
Taboo Subjects
Black Children, White Preference
In Brown v. Board of Education the Supreme Court cited psychologist Kenneth B. Clark for evidence that segregation damaged black children's self-esteem and hampered their ability to learn. Clark and his wife Mamie had tested black children's "racial preference" by asking them to choose between black dolls and white dolls, interpreting the choice of white dolls as evidence of damaged self-esteem. After Brown , the Clarks' studies set the parameter…
Introduction
Runaway Genres
Reviewed by: Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery by Yogita Goyal, and: Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination ed. by Bertram D. Ashe and Ilka Saal Gwen Bergner Yogita Goyal. Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery. New York: New York UP, 2019. 271 pp. $30.00. Eds. Bertram D. Ashe and Ilka Saal. Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination. Seattle: U of Washington P, 2020. 248 pp. $30.00. If Stephen Best wrote "the epitaph of the …
Performing Work
In this article I argue that Douglas Sirk’s maternal melodrama, Imitation of Life (1959), advances an ideology whereby Black women are equated with and consigned to domestic labor. The film features two mother-daughter pairs, one Black and one white. The Black mother, Annie, works as a maid for the white mother. Annie’s light-skinned daughter, Sarah Jane, passes as white to avoid following her mother’s condition. But Annie’s death at the film’s e…
Collusions of Fact and Fiction
Race, History, and American Society (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Anthropology (1 works)