Category: Course Offerings

  • 1111 ENG 126: Racial Passing, Black and White The College of Saint Rose Albany, New York Fall 2009 Eurie Dahn, Assistant Professor of English In this course, we will analyze depictions of racial passing in American literature. In particular, we will examine narratives where African Americans “pass” for white and vice versa. While the popularity…

  • 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…

  • ENGLISH 261E: Mixed Race Literature in the U.S. and South Africa (seminar) Stanford University Department of English Winter Quarter, 2010-2011 Michele Elam, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English and Olivier Nomellini Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education Grant Parker, Associate Professor of Classics Stanford Univeristy As scholar Werner Sollors recently suggested, novels, poems,…

  • ENGL S-88 Study Abroad in Venice, Italy: Interracial Literature (32137) Harvard Summer Program in Venice, Italy: Liberal arts studies in Italy’s city of canals 2010-06-03 through 2010-07-30 Mondays, Wednesdays, 10:00-12:30 CEST (Local Time) (4 credits: UN, GR) Limited enrollment Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English and African-American Studies Harvard University…

  • Spaces of Multiraciality: Critical Mixed Race Theory University of Toronto Geography  (B.A.) Program 2010-2011 Course Number: GGRD19H3   From Tiger Woods to Mariah Carey, the popular mixed race phenomenon has captured the popular imagination and revealed the contradictory logic of categorization underpinning racial divisions. We will explore the complexities of racial identity formation to illuminate…

  • History 270: Topics In American History – Mixed Race Identity in American Culture Spring 2010 Greg Carter, Assistant Professor of History University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Through most of the United States’ history, laws have been in place to prevent interracial intimacy and the production of mixed-race offspring, and the Tragic Mulatto figure, victim of confusion…

  • ETHN 115 – Biracial+Multiracial Iden (3 Units) Sacramento State University Spring 2010 Examination of biracial/multiracial populations, their social histories, social experiences and social identities within various sociological and social psychological theoretical frameworks. An exploration of the relationship biracial/multiracial groups have had, and continue to have, with the larger white majority and monoracially identified minorities. Sect…

  • AAST 398M – Multi-Racial Asian Americans University of Maryland Spring 2010 The multiracial American population is increasing exponentially, as are available services and organizations to support it. With these shifts in mind, this class will examine multiracial America yesterday, today, and tomorrow, with an emphasis on multiracial Asian America in particular. Some questions of interest:…