Women's Studies 3rd Annual Conference
November 7-9, 2013
Women, Race and Ethnicity
The 3rd Annual Women’s Studies Conference will focus on Women, Race, and Ethnicity. Women have been perceived as the “exotic” other, exhibited as curiosity objects, and have also succeeded sometimes in overcoming racial, gender, and social barriers. Women have worked as slaves, they have owned slaves, and they also have fought in the desegregation movement. Enslaved women have raised their masters’ children, and transmitted their cultural heritage to their own children. Women have built both walls and bridges between racial and ethnic groups. Colonial arts and literatures have depicted women stereotypically, and postcolonial arts and literatures have allowed women’s voices to be heard. Women, sometimes excluded and barely tolerated, can impose their presence as legitimate and gain recognition for their roles and contributions to society.
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