Mixed Race Studies

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  • ASTD 693 – Racial Crossings

    ASTD 693 – Racial Crossings Saint Louis University St. Louis, Missouri Fall 2014 Heidi Ardizzone, Associate Professor of American Studies This course examines race in American history and culture primarily through the lens of racial ambiguities, intersections, and intimacies. With attention to major theoretical frameworks for interpreting racial identity and structures, we examine historical and…

  • CSER W4701 Troubling the Color: Passing, Inter-racial Sex, and Ethnic Ambiguity.

    CSER W4701 Troubling the Color: Passing, Inter-racial Sex, and Ethnic Ambiguity. Barnard College New York, New York 2016-17 Catalogue Karl Jacoby, Professor of History Columbia University, New York, New York Passing, remarked W.E.B. Du Bois in 1929, “is a petty, silly matter of no real importance which another generation will comprehend with great difficulty.”  Yet passing and…

  • Race and Medicine in America (AMST 256 – 01)

    Race and Medicine in America (AMST 256 – 01) Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut Fall 2016 Megan H. Glick, Assistant Professor of American Studies This course will trace ideas of race in American medical science and its cultural contexts, from the late 19th century to the present. We will explore how configurations of racial difference have…

  • Afro-Latin America

    Afro-Latin America State University of New York, Albany Summer 2016 Course Info: ALCS 203 Luis Paredes Analysis of blackness in Latin America with a focus on the representations of peoples of African descent in national identities and discourses. The course examines some of the “myths of foundation” of Latin American nations (e.g. The “cosmic race”…

  • ASA 115: Mixed Race Expeiences

    ASA 115: Mixed Race Expeiences University of California, Davis 2012-2016 Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies “Even after our first ‘black’ president ushered in a so-called ‘post racial America,’ we understood that there is much more to the race issue than what has been presented.” Using the theme of Race Traitors, this…

  • 128 RACE MIXTURE POLTCS

    128 RACE MIXTURE POLTCS University of California, Irvine School of Humanities Winter Quarter 2016 Jared Sexton, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Film & Media Studies This course explores the politics of race, class, gender, and sexuality in the United States from the antebellum period to the post-civil rights era, paying specific attention to…

  • ETHS 306 : Politics of Mixed Racial Identity

    ETHS 306 : Politics of Mixed Racial Identity Metropolitan State University, Saint Paul, Minnesota 2002-08-24 to Present This course focuses on the phenomenon of mixed race descent in the United States. For comparative purposes, the course also explores the topic in relation to other nations. Included in the course are historical perspectives, and exploration of…

  • IDS 243 Race, Racism, & Human Genetics

    IDS 243 Race, Racism, & Human Genetics Willamette University Salem, Oregon Fall 2014 What accounts for human difference, and what does the biology of human variation tell us about race and the “life changes” of racial groups in contemporary society? This course examines the relationship between genes, geography, skin color and what we have come…

  • Harlem and After: African American Literature 1925-present (EAS3241)

    Harlem and After: African American Literature 1925-present (EAS3241) University of Exeter Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom 2015-02-08 Taking as its point of departure the landmark special issue of Survey Graphic that announced the arrival on the artistic scene of the “New Negro” (1925), this module provides a historical survey of African American writing, 1925 to present.…

  • ENLT 2513 Major Authors of American Literature: Race and Performance

    ENLT 2513 Major Authors of American Literature: Race and Performance University of Virginia Spring 2015 Sarah Ingle, Lecturer This course will explore representations of race and performance in American literature and culture from the eighteenth century to the present. We will examine cultural phenomena such as blackface minstrel shows, stories of racial “passing,” and a…