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Take Marion Bartram, a 72-year-old retired orchard tender who as a West Chester school board member swears that she will fight to abolish the works of two Afro-American women writers--Jamaica Kincaid and Pulitizer-Prize winning Toni Morrison--from local public schools. In an interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer, she called Morrison "anti-family" and a "man-hater," and accused Kincaid of being a "woman's libber." West Chester school officials, who were attracted to both books partly because of the female protagonists, are embroiled in a debate over yanking the authors off school reading lists...
...hair and wardrobe to look like Francesca, the farm wife who has a torrid affair in the book with a magazine photographer. The others are just as far gone. "You know, I've searched through over a hundred copies of National Geographic, and I cannot find a Robert Kincaid photograph for the life of me," says one. "Why don't they give him credit...
...proposal in Mather is screening films which relate to racial and gender issues, including "Jungle Fever" and "The Philadelphia Story." Other suggested events include lectures by visiting faculty, such as filmmaker Spike Lee and author Jamaica Kincaid...
Since the arrival of DuBois Professor of the Humanities and Afro-American Studies Department Chair Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s arrival two years ago, the department has been able to attract such national figures as filmmaker Spike Lee, visiting scholars Jamaica Kincaid and Anthony Davis...
...professor of management at Northern Iowa State University, just happened to tell somebody at Warner Books that, yeah, he had been a semipro, Saturday- night-at-the-Holiday-Inn sort of guitarist and singer since college. And, yeah, he had written a song about Kincaid and Francesca called The Madison County Waltz...