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Karla Holloway

James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emerita of English
English
Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
304F Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications


Remembering our foremothers: Older black women, politics of age, politics of survival as embodied in the novels of Toni Morrison

Chapter · January 1, 2018 Our two main objectives are first, to examine the significance and meaning of novelist Toni Morrisons works in terms of U.S. culture, literary originality, Black feminism and women’s spirituality, and second to exemplify and examine some differences betwee ... Full text Cite

Beloved: An American Grammar Book

Journal Article Daedalus · 2014 Cite

Shield the Children (On Public Death and Spectacle)

Other Raleigh News & Observer · 2014 Cite

Composing Private Bodies

Journal Article Hastings Center Matters · 2011 Featured Publication Cite

Media Coverage of Global Health: A Matter of Privacy

Other Hastings Center Bioethics Forum · 2010 Cite

Genomics, Arts & Popular Culture

Journal Article Annals of Scholarship: Arts Practices; Human Science in a Global Culture · 2009 Cite

Nothing’s Secret

Journal Article Duke Magazine · 2009 Cite

Bury the Thought

Chapter · 2009 Cite

The Passing of a Repast

Journal Article The Forum–American Assn of Education and Counseling · October 2008 Cite

The False Dividing Line of Race

Other Raleigh News and Observer · February 2008 Cite

Hillary and Obama

Other The State of Things WUNC–NPR · January 2008 Cite

The Return of One Drop?

Other Raleigh News and Observer · November 2007 Cite

The Problem with Cosby

Other Orlando Sentinel, Durham Herald Sun · October 2007 Cite

Polyheme–An Update?

Other Durham Herald Sun · September 2007 Cite

Those Faces We Do Not Mourn

Other Raleigh News and Observer · August 2007 Cite

What Would DuBois Do?

Journal Article Black Issues Book Review · 2007 Cite

Quiet As It’s Kept–Without a Name for Grief

Other National Public Radio–News and Notes · June 2006 Cite

Accidental communities: race, emergency medicine, and the problem of polyheme.

Journal Article The American journal of bioethics : AJOB · May 2006 Featured Publication This article focuses on emergency medical care in black urban populations, suggesting that the classification of a "community" within clinical trial language is problematic. The article references a cultural history of black Americans with pre-hospital eme ... Full text Cite

Don’t Discount DNA Dangers

Journal Article Raleigh News and Observer · March 2006 Cite

DNA and the Romance of Race

Other National Public Radio–News and Notes · February 2006 Cite

BookMarks: Reading in Black and White–A Memoir

Book · 2006 Featured Publication Cite

Cruel Enough to Stop the Blood: Global Feminisms and the U.S. Body Politic, or: ’They Done Taken My Blues and Gone’

Journal Article Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism · 2006 Featured Publication Cite

Coda: Bodies of Evidence

Journal Article S&F (Scholar and Feminist) Online · 2006 Featured Publication Cite

The "R" Word: Bioethics and a (Dis)Regard of Race

Journal Article American Journal of Bioethics · 2006 Cite

Zora Neale Hurston

Chapter · 2003 Cite

Passed On: African American Mourning Stories

Book · 2002 Featured Publication Cite

The Race for Theory

Chapter · 2002 Featured Publication Cite

The Death of Culture

Journal Article The Massachusetts Review · 1999 Featured Publication Cite

The Ladies Speak Out

Journal Article Review of Wearing Purple, edited by Otis Owens et al., The Raleigh News and Observer · February 1997 Cite

Zora Neale Hurston

Journal Article · 1997 Cite

Gender

Chapter · 1997 Cite

Narrative Time/Spiritual Text

Chapter · 1997 Featured Publication Cite

Review of Nathaniel Mackey’s Djbot Baghostus’s Run

Journal Article African American Review · 1995 Cite

The Body Politic

Chapter · 1995 Cite

Notes on Contributors

Journal Article Women's Studies · September 1, 1994 Full text Cite

Private Parts/Public Spaces

Journal Article Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal · 1994 Cite

The Thursday Ladies

Chapter · 1991 Cite

Beloved: A Spiritual

Journal Article Callaloo · 1990 Cite

Review of Toni Morrison’s Beloved

Journal Article Black American Literature Forum · 1989 Cite

A Question of Identity

Chapter · 1988 Cite

Remembering our foremother: Older black women, politics of age, politics of survival as embodied in the novels of toni morrison

Journal Article Women and Politics · June 1, 1986 In this essay we examine the significance and meaning of novelist Toni Morrison’s works interms of American culture, literary originality, Black faminism and women’s spirituality. Our essayalso exemplifies and examines some differences between a white fema ... Full text Cite

The Effects of Basal Readers on Oral Language Complexity

Journal Article Jrnl of Psycholinguistic Research · March 1986 Cite

The effects of basal readers on oral language structures: A description of complexity

Journal Article Journal of Psycholinguistic Research · March 1, 1986 This report describes preliminary results of a research project to determine the effects of basal readers on productive and responsive (P/R) language. The research population consisted of 25 kindergarten and first-grade children, average age 6 years 4 mont ... Full text Cite