Mixed Race Studies

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  • SOCI 006-601: Race and Ethnic Relations

    SOCI 006-601: Race and Ethnic Relations University of Pennsylvania Department of Sociology Fall 2011 Tamara Nopper, Adjunct Professor of Asian American Studies The election of Barack Obama as the United States’ first Black president has raised questions about whether we have entered a post-racial society.  This course examines the idea of racial progress that is…

  • ENGLISH 56N: Mixed Race in the New Millennium: Crossings of Kin, Culture and Faith (Stanford Introductory Seminar)

    ENGLISH 56N: Mixed Race in the New Millennium: Crossings of Kin, Culture and Faith (Stanford Introductory Seminar) Stanford University Winter Quarter, 2011-2012 Michele Elam, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English and Olivier Nomellini Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education Stanford University Our course examines how literature, theater, graphic art and popular culture shape…

  • Mixed in America: Race, Religion, and Memoir (RELI 280, AFAN 282, or AMST 242)

    Mixed in America: Race, Religion, and Memoir (RELI 280, AFAN 282, or AMST 242) Wesleyan University Spring 2012 Elizabeth McAlister, Associate Professor of Religion This course examines the history of “mixed-race” and “interfaith” identities in America. Using the genre of the memoir as a focusing lens, we will look at the various ways that Americans…

  • Hybrid Identities, Authentic Selves (SS-0217)

    Hybrid Identities, Authentic Selves (SS-0217) Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts Spring Term 2011 Kimberly Chang, Associate Professor of Cultural Psychology This course explores two related concepts—hybridity and authenticity—that underlie many present-day struggles over cultural identity and representation. The former calls attention to the multiplicity of social identities that vie for recognition within a person, while the…

  • Controversy: Race and Sexuality on the American Frontier (FRO 100.023)

    Controversy: Race and Sexuality on the American Frontier (FRO 100.023) Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland Angelo Robinson, Associate Professor of English “Am I Black or White? Am I Straight or Gay? CONTROVERSY?”  Since its founding, and long before recording artist Prince penned these lyrics in the 1980s, America has been a space and a place demanding…

  • NHUM3031 Passing: (Re)Constructing Identity

    NHUM3031 Passing: (Re)Constructing Identity The New School Fall 2009 Tracyann Williams, Instructor Passing: (Re)Constructing Identity: “Passing,” a term traditionally used to describe fair-skinned Blacks posing as whites, is, in fact, part of a broader cultural phenomenon that has its origins in the pursuit of “the American Dream.” For the sake of economic comforts, racially, ethnically,…

  • Race and Mixed Race

    Race and Mixed Race University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts American Culture AMCULT 311 –  Topics in Ethnic Studies Section 001 Fall 2011 Evelyn Azeeza Alsultany, Assistant Professor of American Culture This course examines how conceptions of race and mixed race have been historically shaped through law, science, and popular culture.…

  • Mixed Dreams: Exploring “Multi” Experiences in the U.S.

    Mixed Dreams: Exploring “Multi” Experiences in the U.S. EXCO (Experimental College) Spring 2011 Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio Nicole Asong Nfonoyim The experiences and identities of mixed-race people in the United States have often been marginalized if not rendered invisible, silenced and subsumed under the dominant black-white binary. While mixed identities have been part of U.S.…

  • Race and Mixed Race (LS 355)

    Race and Mixed Race (LS 355) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Fall 2011 Explores the history of racial classification in the U.S. with special attention to the census and the role of the state more generally in defining race. Emphasis on how race-mixing has been understood in American culture, and on the current literature on “multiracials”…

  • SOCY 57: Identity and Social Interaction of Multiracial Americans

    SOCY 57: Identity and Social Interaction of Multiracial Americans Dartmouth College Department of Sociology Upper Division Currently being taught as of Spring 2011 Melissa R. Herman, Assistant Professor of Sociology The 2000 Census revealed that nearly 4% of youth and 2% of adult Americans belong to more than one racial category. What are the social,…