Race-ing Queens
Issue 18.1 | Fall/Winter 2022

Race-ing Queens

IN THIS ISSUE

About this Issue
by The Editorial Team

Introduction
by Mira Assaf Kafantaris, Treva B. Lindsey, and Sonja Drimmer

‘Honi soit qui mal y pense’: Succession, Race, and Gender in the Demi-Monde of Storyville, New Orleans
by Aviva Helena Neff

‘All hail the Queen’: Cultural Bearing, Civic Engagement, and the Mardi Gras Indian Queens
by Virginia H. Cope and Tiyi Morris

Janelle Monáe’s ‘Q.U.E.E.N.’ as Contemporary Court Masque
by Jennifer Higginbotham

Nuestra Señora del Mal Querer: Marian Imagery and Rosalía’s Ascent to Pop Urbano Royalty
by Ximena Gómez

‘Si no parís, a París:’ Marie Louise of Orleans, Fertility, and Nation
by Emily Kuffner

Race-ing Catherine of Aragon: Color and Kinship and Cultural Imagination in Calderón, Shakespeare and Contemporary Media
by Zainab Cheema

Divorced, Beheaded, Live in Concert: Race-ing Henry’s VIII’s Queens in Six
by Stephanie Russo

‘A beauty not so whitely’: Anne Boleyn and the Optics of Race
by Yasmine Hachimi

Image credit: Rosalía, “ROSALÍA – PIENSO EN TU MIRÁ (Cap.3: Celos),” YouTube video, 4:04, July 23, 2018. Licensed to Columbia Records, a Division of Sony Music Entertainment. Cited in Ximena Gómez, “Nuestra Señora del Mal Querer: Marian Imagery and Rosalía’s Ascent to Pop Urbano Royalty.”