Mixed Race Studies

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  • VIS409 Mixed Race Women’s Memoirs

    VIS409 Mixed Race Women’s Memoirs Antioch University, Midwest Winter 2010 This course is designed as a multidisciplinary exploration of race, gender, and identity utilizing oral and written narratives of Black-white mixed race women from the mid-nineteenth century to the present as source material. Drawing from elements of cultural studies, African American studies, American studies, and…

  • Curriculum corner

    Curriculum corner The Daily of The University of Washington 2010-10-01 Laurel Christensen Despite talk of budget cuts, swelling classes and disappearing instructors, the UW is offering more than 50 new courses this quarter. These are a few unique courses now available to students… …Intergenerational Roots: A Mixed Heritage Family Oral History Project Offered through the…

  • History 328: American Mixed Blood

    History 328: American Mixed Blood Oberlin College Department of History Fall 2009 Pablo Mitchell, Eric and Jane Nord Associate Professor of History and Comparative American Studies Oberlin College From the coyote and the half-breed to the “tragic” mulatto, people of mixed ethnic and racial heritage occupy a conflicted and controversial place in American history. This…

  • AMCV 1611J – Sex, Love, Race: Miscegenation, Mixed Race and Interracial Relations

    AMCV 1611J – Sex, Love, Race: Miscegenation, Mixed Race and Interracial Relations Brown University Fall 2010 Ulli K. Ryder This class will explore the conditions and consequences for crossing racial boundaries in North America. We will take a multidisciplinary approach, exploring literary, anthropological, and historical writings along with several feature and documentary film treatments of…

  • AAS 355. Biracial and Multiracial Identity

    AAS 355. Biracial and Multiracial Identity California State University, Northridge Asian American Studies Interdisciplinarily studies the socio-historical realities, identities, and political maintenance of people with multiple racial and ethnic heritages; examines the binary racial structure of the U.S., social and legal customs of racial designation and membership; focuses on multiracial populations such as Creoles, mulattos,…

  • CRN 47519/47520-Mixed Race Asian Americans

    CRN 47519/47520-Mixed Race Asian Americans University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Fall 2008 Kent Ono, Professor of Asian American Studies, Communication, and Institute of Communications Research Part of Asian American Ethnic Groups (AAS-450) This course provides an introduction to the study of mixed race Asian Americans. From discussions of famous mixed race people, such as Tiger Woods,…

  • AMST130 SC-Multiracial People and Relations in U.S. History

    AMST130 SC-Multiracial People and Relations in U.S. History Scripps College, Claremont, California 2013 Matthew Delmont, Assistant Professor of American Studies This class will explore the conditions and consequences for crossing racial boundaries in the U.S. We will take a multidisciplinary approach, exploring historical, literary, and ethnographic writings along with several feature and documentary film treatments…

  • AAS 436–Politics of Racial Ambiguity

    AAS 436–Politics of Racial Ambiguity University of Nevada, Las Vegas Fall 2010 Rainier Spencer, Professor and Director, Afro-American Studies Program Interdisciplinary investigation of contemporary American black/white multiracial identities, including analyses and assessments of the “multiracial identity movement” in the United States.

  • AAS 434-Constructions of Racial Ambiguity

    AAS 434-Constructions of Racial Ambiguity University of Nevada, Las Vegas Spring 2010 Rainier Spencer, Professor and Director, Afro-American Studies Program Interdisciplinary study of miscegenation, mulattos, and passing in the United States. Focuses on the Afro-American context, using historical, literary, and cinematic sources in order to grapple with and gain an understanding of the complexities of…

  • SOC 139C. Betwixt and Between: Multiracial Identity in the United States

    An examination of the factors that have influenced the social location of racially mixed individuals of African and European descent in the United States, in order to provide a context for understanding the complexities surrounding the newly emerging multiracial conciousness.