Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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English 108: Crossing Racial Boundaries in Post-Civil Rights Fiction and Film: Interracial Encounters University of California, Los Angeles Winter 2012 Caroline Streeter, Associate Professor of English This course looks at literature and film depicting interracial sexuality and mixed race identities in the post-Civil Rights era. Course materials depict individuals and communities that trouble and challenge…
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ROMST 200.01: Critical Approaches to Mestizaje Duke University Spring 2012 Claudia Milian, Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Romance Studies; African & African American Studies This seminar will examine critical theories of mestizaje, miscegenation, mixed race, and hybridity as articulated in Latino, Latin American, and African-American projects of racial identification and classification. In particular, the…
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ASAM 187. Asian Pacific American Mixed Race Issues Pomona College, Claremont, California Spring 2008 Course will explore the lives of racially and ethnically mixed people, focusing on Asian Pacific Americans. As intermarriage rates increase for all groups, the experiences of multiracial people reflect in distinctive ways the cultural and identity choices that individuals and communities…
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FYS 102N: Exploring Mixed Identities University of Maryland, Baltimore County Fall 2011 The aim of this course is to move beyond prevalent monoracial discourses by examining identities and experiences from a mixed race/mixed ethnicity perspective. This course explores many topics such as the history of racialization, processes of othering, acceptance and the politics of claiming,…
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Mix Up, Mix Up: Reviewing Bob Marley as the Militant Mulatto University of Miami Fall 2011 ENG 106 R4/S4 Rachel Panton, Lecturer of English In lieu of what would have been Bob Marley’s 66th birthday, we will explore the impact of Rastafari on the life and music of Marley, and on other contemporary Roots Reggae…
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HIS 3015: Intermarraige in the U.S.: Race, Sex and Power in a Multicultural Society Castleson State College, Vermont Fall 2011, Fall 2014 An overview of the historical evolution of intermarriage and sexual relations among the various racial and ethnic groups comprising the population of the United States, and the myriad ways in which “miscegenation” has…
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Crossing the Color Line: Narratives of Passing in American Literature St. Mary’s College of Maryland English 400.01 Fall 2008 Christine Wooley, Assistant Professor of English This course will consider representations of passing (and thus also miscegenation) in nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. culture. While passing has often been depicted-and dismissed-as an act of racial betrayal,…
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Crossing the Color Line: Racial Passing in American Literature Wesleyan University AMST 322 / ENGL 319 Fall 2015 Amy Cynthia Tang, Assistant Professor of English Narratives of racial passing having long captivated readers and critics alike for the way in which they provocatively raise questions about the construction, reinforcement, and subversion of racial categories. This…