Mixed Race Studies

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  • French110s: From Haiti to New Orleans

    French110s: From Haiti to New Orleans John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Duke University Fall 2010 Deborah Jenson Haiti Lab: Undergraduate Opportunities The first Humanities Laboratory at Duke, one of the key goals of the Haiti Lab is to bring innovative, interdisciplinary research more fully into the undergraduate experience at Duke and, indeed, to invite undergraduates…

  • ASNAMST 173S: Transcultural and Multiethnic Lives: Contexts, Controversies, and Challenges (AFRICAAM 173S, CSRE 173S)

    ASNAMST 173S: Transcultural and Multiethnic Lives: Contexts, Controversies, and Challenges (AFRICAAM 173S, CSRE 173S) Stanford University Spring 2011 Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu Lived experience of people who dwell in the border world of race and nation where they negotiate transcultural and multiethnic identities and politics. Comparative, historical, and global contexts such as family and class. Controversies, such…

  • AAS 4570 – Passing in African-American Imagination

    AAS 4570 – Passing in African-American Imagination University of Virginia The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American & African Studies Spring 2011 Alisha Gaines, Post-Doctoral Fellow (English) Duke University This course considers the canonical African American literary tradition and popular culture texts that think through the boundaries of blackness and identity through the organizing trope…

  • SOCI 006 601 – Race and Ethnic Relations

    SOCI 006 601 – Race and Ethnic Relations University of Pennsylvania College of Liberal and Professional Studies Spring 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…

  • 4203W-01 – Racial Passing, Masquerade, and Transformation in African American Literature, Law, Film, and Culture

    4203W-01 – Racial Passing, Masquerade, and Transformation in African American Literature, Law, Film, and Culture University of Connecticut Fall 2010 Martha Cutter, Associate Professor of English What is “race”? What is “whiteness”? What is “blackness”? What does it mean to be “mixed-race” or “multi-racial” in the US? This course will examine what racial passing—people who…

  • English 39695-001 ST: Racial Crossings

    English 39695-001 ST: Racial Crossings Kent State University 2006 Martha Cutter, Associate Professor of English This course will examine literary and cultural treatments of individuals, authors, and characters who cross from one race to another, and sometimes also from one gender to another. This crossing may be metaphorical—for example, a white writer may attempt to…

  • Media and Performance in Racial Passing: 2007 Heterodox Identities – LCST 2007 A

    Media and Performance in Racial Passing: 2007 Heterodox Identities – LCST 2007 A Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts Spring 2009 Orville Lee, Assistant Professor of Sociology Racial passing is a ubiquitous and contentious feature of social and cultural life in the United States. Taking “passing” as an object of analysis, this…

  • SOCI3600 – The Multiracial Family

    SOCI3600 – The Multiracial Family Univeristy of North Texas Summer 2010 George Alan Yancey, Associate Professor of Sociology University of North Texas Academic study of the dynamics found in multiracial families. Important concepts in race/ethnicity studies such as assimilation, racial identity and pluralism. Other topics include passing, one-drop rule, interracial dating/marriage, bi- or multiracial identity…

  • Ethnic Studies 064: Mixed Race Descent in the Americas

    Ethnic Studies 064: Mixed Race Descent in the Americas Mills College, Oakland, California Fall 2010 Melinda Micco, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies This is an introductory course that examines the historical and theoretical development of identities and of communities of multiracial and multiethnic people. In the academy, in government, and in popular culture, the lives…

  • Multiethnic Multiracial Experience (Ethnic Studies 199)

    Multiethnic Multiracial Experience (Ethnic Studies 199) University of Oregon Winter 2010 Anselmo Villanueva, Ph.D. This course will focus on the multiracial multiethnic experience in the United States, with particular emphasis on the Northwest. This course will provide students with a framework to understand this experience. The course will cover the history and background of the…