ART & DESIGN FACULTY – Shelleen Greene awarded IRE Faculty Diversity Research Award |
ART & DESIGN FACULTY – Shelleen Greene awarded IRE Faculty Diversity Research Award
Peck School of The Arts News
University of Wisconsin, Madison
2010-06-15
The award will allow Assistant Professor Shelleen Greene to complete her book project, Equivocal Subjects: Mixed-Race Identity in the Italian Cinema. The book examines the representation of mixed-race subjects of Italian and African descent in the Italian cinema, arguing that the changing cultural representations of mixed-race identity reveal shifts in the country’s conceptual paradigms of race and nation. Greene’s work further contends that these representations of mixed-race identity inform African diasporic filmmakers seeking to “write” the history of post-colonial Italy as a means of narrating African disaporic identity formation in the present era of global migration…
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