Category: Course Offerings

  • AIS 350 : Black-Indians in the Americas San Francisco State University Fall 2011 In this course students will be introduced to some of the major sociological and historical factors that have given rise to multiracial cultural identities in American Indian communities throughout the Americas and the Caribbean with a specific focus on Black-Indians within American…

  • AMST 294-03  Mixed Race America: Identity, Culture, and Politics Macalester College Saint Paul, Minnesota Spring 2012 SooJin Pate This course is an introduction to the animating debates, themes, and issues in Critical Mixed Race Studies. Utilizing critical race theory and postcolonial analysis, we will examine the identities and experiences of multiracial or mixed race people,…

  • ENGL 3270.03: Contemporary Canadian Literature: Crossing the Line Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Summer 2007 Dr. C. Dawson Our study of contemporary Canadian literature will be loosely divided into three sections, each organized around the idea of “crossing the line.” In the first section the line under consideration will be the border that defines…

  • Impostors: EUST-235 Amherst College Spring 2012 Ilan Stavans, Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture Deborah R. Dizard, Visiting Lecturer in European Studies An interdisciplinary exploration of the causes behind the social, racial, artistic, and political act—and art—of posing, passing, or pretending to be someone else. Blacks passing for whites, Jews passing for gentiles,…

  • “Race” & Ethnicity in Society in Social-Historical Context (AAS-SOC 338) Lehman College, City University of New York Spring 2012 Mark Christian, Professor & Chair of African & African American Studies The idea of “race” since the 18th Century, and up to the present, has brought forth tremendous social inequality and, not to be over-dramatic, “social…

  • ENLT 252 Mestizas, Halfies, and Others University of Virginia Fall 2008 How does your family background affect the way that the way that you see yourself?  How others in the United States see you?  In this class we will investigate novels, short stories, and poems that foreground the multicultural and intercultural make-up of the United…

  • AMST 349: Race Across the Americas Emory University Seminar exploring the social construction of race comparatively and transnationally, especially the status of the descendants of enslaved Africans and mixed-race individuals in the Caribbean and Latin America.

  • 335. Comparative Studies in Racial and cultural Identities St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York Cultural Encounters Courses  This is a senior seminar designed to fulfill the goals of the Cultural Encounters program: to prompt students to synthesize and re-evaluate their academic study of cultures, their experiential learning off campus and their own social locations and…

  • 28. Hapa Issues: Asian Americans of Mixed Racial Descent Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts Spring 2010 Growing numbers of inter-racial marriages and the products of these marriages—children of mixed racial descent—have contributed to the increasing diversity of America in the 21st century. Reflecting this heterogeneity, the 2000 Census allowed people to claim more than one background…

  • 44. Afro-Latin America Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts Spring 2010 (Offered as History 56 [LA] and Black Studies 44 [D, CLA].) This course explores the historical experiences of Afro-Latin populations since Independence within and outside the nation-state. The course asks how and why one might study those whose governments define them not as peoples of African…