Mixed Race Studies

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  • 350:445 Revisiting Racial Passing in the 21st Century

    350:445 Revisiting Racial Passing in the 21st Century Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Summer 2013 This is a course on racial passing, which many people wrongly believe is an antiquated phenomenon. Passing has historically referred to light-skinned African Americans who use their phenotypes to pretend to be white and enjoy the privileges of…

  • Critical Mixed Race Studies in the Twenty-First Century (ETHN 0090B S01)

    Critical Mixed Race Studies in the Twenty-First Century (ETHN 0090B S01) Brown University Fall 2013 Alexandrina R. Agloro, Visiting Instructor in American Studies This course will guide students through an understanding of the historical, contemporary, and ideological rationale behind the constructions of mixed race, and how mixed race theory plays out in history, art, and…

  • SO224: The Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

    SO224: The Sociology of Race and Ethnicity London School of Economics 2013/2014 session Helen Kim The course provides an introduction to theoretical, historical and contemporary debates around race, racism and ethnicity. It firstly explores the main theoretical perspectives which have been used to analyse racial and ethnic relations, in a historical and contemporary framework. It…

  • AAAS 348 (Fall 2013): Class, Race, and Gender—“Hapas, Hafus, Mestizos, and Muggles”

    AAAS 348 (Fall 2013): Class, Race, and Gender—“Hapas, Hafus, Mestizos, and Muggles” California State University, Los Angeles Asian and Asian American Studies Program Fall 2013 Michelle Har Kim HAPA (from the Hawai‘ian Dictionary, Māmaka Kaiao) Portion, fragment, part, fraction, installment; to be partial, less. (Eng. half) Cf. hapahā, hapalua, etc. Ka ’ike hapa, limited knowledge.…

  • Race and the Visual Arts: LAHS-P236

    Race and the Visual Arts: LAHS-P236 Berklee College of Music Boston, Massachusetts Fall 2013 In this course, students explore the representation of race in visual culture and the ways in which culture marks subjects, objects, and bodies with racial identity. Wherever we look we are confronted by images that are explicitly or implicitly racialized—in artistic…

  • SOCI 395-005: Plessy to Martin: Race and Politics

    SOCI 395-005: Plessy to Martin: Race and Politics George Mason University Fairfax, Virginia Fall 2013 Rutledge M. Dennis, Professor of Sociology This course examines the issues, individuals, and groups central to the intersectionality of race, culture, and politics in American life. We will begin with the landmark Plessy v. Ferguson case which solidified and legitimized…

  • Casta Painting: Art, Race and Identity in Colonial Mexico (HI972)

    Casta Painting: Art, Race and Identity in Colonial Mexico (HI972) University of Warwick Coventry, England Spring 2013 Rebecca Earle, Professor of History This module explores the distinctive vision of colonial Mexico purveyed via the artistic genre known as the casta painting. Casta paintings depict the outcomes of different types of inter-ethnic mixing, and often come…

  • HIST 574–Modern U.S. History: Miscegenation, Mixed Race, and Interracial Relationships

    HIST 574–Modern U.S. History: Miscegenation, Mixed Race, and Interracial Relationships Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts Summer 2013 Ulli Ryder, Lecturer of History and Africana Studies This class will explore the conditions for and consequences of crossing racial boundaries in the United States. It will take a multidisciplinary approach, utilizing historical scholarship, literature, legal scholarship, and communication…

  • PHIL 539: Critical Philosophy of Race

    PHIL 539: Critical Philosophy of Race Pennsylvania State University Summer 2012 The study of philosophical issues raised by racism and by the concept of race and other related concepts. This course provides an intensive examination of a major area of philosophical research: the philosophical examination of racism and of our thinking about race. It will…

  • 383a. Nation, Race and Gender in Latin America and the Caribbean – Senior Seminar

    383a. Nation, Race and Gender in Latin America and the Caribbean – Senior Seminar Vassar College Poughkeepsie, New York 2013/2014 Light Carruyo, Associate Professor of Sociology   (Same as Sociology 383) With a focus on Latin America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean this course traces and analyzes the ways in which the project of nation building…