College is a time for change, and Katherine Gan, a Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies major graduating in May agrees. “I am a very different person than I was when I first entered Duke,” Gan said, “but wonderful mentorships and friendships have made me grow a great amount in just a couple of years.”
When Michaeline Crichlow moved from her native St. Lucia to upstate New York, she had a lot to learn and not just in the graduate program she attended at Binghamton University. “I became a Black person not in the Caribbean, but in the United States,” said the professor and interim chair of African & African American Studies.
The term "yellowface" is widely understood in pop culture, but it's not a searchable term in the archive catalogs the concept doesn't exist. What is the first known instance of yellowface? How do theater historians write about live productions that happened in the past? And why is the history of yellowface in theater relevant today? This week, we interview Esther Kim Lee,
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