Cherene Sherrard‐Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 6543807 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cherene Sherrard‐Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cherene |
| FAMILY NAME | Sherrard‐Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON C S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ghostly Outlines
Why acknowledge the non-event of black death?” asks Saidiya Hartman.1 In light of protests incited by the murders of George Floyd in Minneapolis; Ahmaud Arbery in Glynn County, Georgia; and Breonna Taylor in Louisville, this question resonates with urgent frequency. The events of spring 2020 throughout the United States underscored that the political platform of Black Indigenous People of Color has not changed in four hundred years. Hartman summa…
Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance
Of all the images to arise from the Harlem Renaissance, the most thought-provoking were those of the mulatta. For some writers, artists, and filmmakers, these images provided an alternative to the stereotypes of black womanhood and a challenge to the color line. For others, they represented key aspects of modernity and race coding central to the New Negro Movement. Due to the mulatta’s frequent ability to pass for white, she represented a variety…
Perfection with a hole in the middle”: Archipelagic Assemblage in Tiphanie Yanique’s Land of Love and Drowning
This essay uses frameworks derived from Archipelagic American studies to examine Tiphanie Yanique’s novel Land of Love and Drowning and the United States Virgin Islands on the 100th anniversary of their transfer from Denmark. Yanique’s vision of a specifically USVI literature is necessarily archipelagic in that it participates in inter-island exchange based on circuits forged by colonial practice that have been dynamically revised through global …
The Mulatta Concubine: Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire in the Black Transatlantic, written by Lisa Ze Winters
A Companion to the Harlem Renaissance
Racial Recovery, Racial Death: An Introduction in Four Parts
Racial Recovery, Racial Death:An Introduction in Four Parts P. Gabrielle Foreman and Cherene Sherrard-Johnson In February 2005, an article appeared in the Boston Globe asserting that census records list as white the author of two novels published in the Schomburg Collection of African American Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century (Jackson). The genealogical work reported in the Globe turned out to be sound. Yet the researcher's not quite subtl…
This Plague of Their Own Locusts: "Space, Property, and Identity in Dorothy West's "The Living Is Easy
The August 2000 issue of Vanity Fair revived the concept of the girl, citing Gwyneth Paltrow as the embodiment of for the twenty-first century amongst a retrospective parade of former girls. The became a part of American cultural grammar during the 1920s: It was a term for a woman who embodied the spirit of her age. Vanity Fair's 2000 spread included socialites, entertainers, and businesswomen with expense accounts and trust funds that underwrote…
A Plea For Color: Nella Larsen's Iconography of the Mulatta
Research Article| December 01 2004 “A Plea For Color”: Nella Larsen's Iconography of the Mulatta Cherene Sherrard-Johnson Cherene Sherrard-Johnson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 833–869. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-4-833 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Cherene Sherrard-Johnson; “A Plea For Color”: Nella Larsen's…
A Plea For Color: Nella Larsen's Iconography of the Mulatta
Research Article| December 01 2004 “A Plea For Color”: Nella Larsen's Iconography of the Mulatta Cherene Sherrard-Johnson Cherene Sherrard-Johnson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 833–869. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-4-833 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Cherene Sherrard-Johnson; “A Plea For Color”: Nella Larsen's…
Perfection with a hole in the middle”: Archipelagic Assemblage in Tiphanie Yanique’s Land of Love and Drowning
This essay uses frameworks derived from Archipelagic American studies to examine Tiphanie Yanique’s novel Land of Love and Drowning and the United States Virgin Islands on the 100th anniversary of their transfer from Denmark. Yanique’s vision of a specifically USVI literature is necessarily archipelagic in that it participates in inter-island exchange based on circuits forged by colonial practice that have been dynamically revised through global …
This Plague of Their Own Locusts: "Space, Property, and Identity in Dorothy West's "The Living Is Easy
The August 2000 issue of Vanity Fair revived the concept of the girl, citing Gwyneth Paltrow as the embodiment of for the twenty-first century amongst a retrospective parade of former girls. The became a part of American cultural grammar during the 1920s: It was a term for a woman who embodied the spirit of her age. Vanity Fair's 2000 spread included socialites, entertainers, and businesswomen with expense accounts and trust funds that underwrote…
A Plea For Color: Nella Larsen's Iconography of the Mulatta
Research Article| December 01 2004 “A Plea For Color”: Nella Larsen's Iconography of the Mulatta Cherene Sherrard-Johnson Cherene Sherrard-Johnson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 833–869. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-4-833 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Cherene Sherrard-Johnson; “A Plea For Color”: Nella Larsen's…
Racial Recovery, Racial Death: An Introduction in Four Parts
Racial Recovery, Racial Death:An Introduction in Four Parts P. Gabrielle Foreman and Cherene Sherrard-Johnson In February 2005, an article appeared in the Boston Globe asserting that census records list as white the author of two novels published in the Schomburg Collection of African American Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century (Jackson). The genealogical work reported in the Globe turned out to be sound. Yet the researcher's not quite subtl…
A Companion to the Harlem Renaissance
The Mulatta Concubine: Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire in the Black Transatlantic, written by Lisa Ze Winters
Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance
Of all the images to arise from the Harlem Renaissance, the most thought-provoking were those of the mulatta. For some writers, artists, and filmmakers, these images provided an alternative to the stereotypes of black womanhood and a challenge to the color line. For others, they represented key aspects of modernity and race coding central to the New Negro Movement. Due to the mulatta’s frequent ability to pass for white, she represented a variety…
Perfection with a hole in the middle”: Archipelagic Assemblage in Tiphanie Yanique’s Land of Love and Drowning
This essay uses frameworks derived from Archipelagic American studies to examine Tiphanie Yanique’s novel Land of Love and Drowning and the United States Virgin Islands on the 100th anniversary of their transfer from Denmark. Yanique’s vision of a specifically USVI literature is necessarily archipelagic in that it participates in inter-island exchange based on circuits forged by colonial practice that have been dynamically revised through global …
Ghostly Outlines
Why acknowledge the non-event of black death?” asks Saidiya Hartman.1 In light of protests incited by the murders of George Floyd in Minneapolis; Ahmaud Arbery in Glynn County, Georgia; and Breonna Taylor in Louisville, this question resonates with urgent frequency. The events of spring 2020 throughout the United States underscored that the political platform of Black Indigenous People of Color has not changed in four hundred years. Hartman summa…
Art (7 works) · History (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Race, History, and American Society (4 works) · American and British Literature Analysis (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works)