Category: Course Offerings

  • English 49, “Whiteness” and Racial Difference Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania Spring 1997 Peter Schmidt, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English Literature A look at the conflicted ways in which “racial” identities and differences have been constructed in past and contemporary cultures, especially in the U.S. Topics given emphasis in the syllabus include why saying…

  • EN-255 Passing Narratives Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania Fall Semester Passing narratives investigate how the boundaries of identity can be reimagined. Most often depicting racial passing (when a person “passes for” someone of another race), these narratives also can be about performing another gender or sexual identity. In this course, we will examine a variety of…

  • 241F Performances of Passing, Performances of Resistance Hamilton College, Clinton, New York Spring 2014 Yumi Pak, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor of Africana Studies An examination of the historical practice of passing in the United States. While the practice has most commonly referred to the history of racial passing for light-skinned African Americans in the early…

  • BSt 335U The Multi-Racial Experience Portland State University Portland, Oregon 2014-2015 Explores what it means to identify oneself or be identified as multiracial/ethnic. Considers how social class, gender, race and other factors shape the multiracial experience. In addition, explores interracial relationship and the representation of multiracials in the media.

  • Advanced Topics in Asian American Studies; The Multiracial Experience in the US (AAST498Y) University of Maryland Fall 2014 Lawrence Davis Course will focus on multiracial (“mixed race”) identity and how the experiences of multiracial people contribute to our broader understanding of racial identity and formation. Course draws on literature and research produced by and about…

  • CNST 419 – The Metis People of Canada University of Calgary Fall 2013 An interdisciplinary study of the Metis people of Canada, with special emphasis on the social, economic, and political factors influencing their emergence and continued survival as a distinct indigenous group in Canada. (formerly Canadian Studies 401.04) For more information, click here.

  • English 4640G: Construction of Racial Identity in Post Civil War America Huron University College at Western University London, Ontario, Canada Winter 2013 Neil Brooks, Associate Professor, English Course Description: Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination argues that the canonical American literary tradition can only be understood after recognizing the presence…

  • 477A Race Mixing in U.S.A. History California State University, Fullerton 2013-2015 History of racial mixing in the United States. Experiences of interracial families and especially their mixed race progeny. Complicates understanding of racial categories and hierarchies over time.

  • Race and Medicine Princeton University AAS 403 / ANT 403 (EM) Spring 2013-2014 Carolyn M. Rouse, Professor of Anthropology In 1998, then-President Clinton set a national goal that by the year 2010 race, ethnic, and gender disparities in six disease categories would be eliminated. While the agenda, called Healthy People 2010, was a noble effort,…

  • 79-173 Freshman Seminar: Barack Obama and the History of Race in America Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Department of History 2013-2014 Well before he was elected the forty-fourth President of the United States, Barack Obama challenged Americans to think anew about the history of race in this country. In this course, we will examine President…