Mixed Race Studies

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  • ENGL 326: Representations of Miscegenations

    ENGL 326: Representations of Miscegenations Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut Spring 2010 The course examines the notion of miscegenation (interracial relations), including how the term was coined and defined. Using an interdisciplinary approach, we will consider the different and conflicting ways that interracial relations have been represented, historically and contemporaneously, as well as the implications of…

  • English 190: Research Seminar: Literature of Racial Passing

    English 190: Research Seminar: Literature of Racial Passing University of California, Berkeley Spring 2012 Cecil S. Giscombe, Professor of English A passing narrative is an account—fiction or nonfiction—of a person (or group) claiming a racial or ethnic identity that she does not (or they do not) “possess.” Such narratives speak—directly, indirectly, and very uneasily—to the…

  • ENGL 773 (or) ENGL 873: Topics in Minority Literature: (W)Rites of Passing: Narratives of Shifting African American Identities

    ENGL 773 (or) ENGL 873: Topics in Minority Literature: (W)Rites of Passing: Narratives of Shifting African American Identities Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania Fall 2012 Veronica Watson, Associate Professor of English “Passing” is a term that has, until quite recently, been used to refer almost exclusively to a person classified by society as a…

  • Performance Studies: Interracialism: Performing Mixed Race (H42.2090)

    Performance Studies: Interracialism: Performing Mixed Race (H42.2090) New York University Department of Social & Cultural Analysis: American Studies This course will survey the emergent field of  ‘critical mixed race studies’ with a particular emphasis on the black experience in the Americas. How have people of African descent been alternately excluded from and incorporated into discourses…

  • SO 3300: ‘Race’and ‘Mixed Race’

    SO 3300: ‘Race’and ‘Mixed Race’ Forham University Spring 2010 The origins of ‘race,’its historic role and social construction are examined. Ancient and modern-day ideas are explored. Contrasts between the United States and Latin American concepts of ‘race’ and ‘mixed race’ are analyzed. Future implications are discussed.

  • AmSt 201 W: The American Experience: Institutions and Movements: Mixed Race in America

    AmSt 201 W: The American Experience: Institutions and Movements: Mixed Race in America University of Hawaii Spring 2010 Students will gain familiarity with American Mixed Race theory, and politics as well as explore first hand literary accounts by mixed race individuals. Analysis of social and political narratives about Mixed Race people will be facilitated by…

  • IRISH-GA 1085: Black Irish Writing

    IRISH-GA 1085: Black Irish Writing Gluckman Ireland House New York University Spring 2010 This course examines the textual force-fields of similarity and difference in the writing of racial and ethnic identities in the Atlantic World.  It begins by considering works of Irish writers who engaged with Atlantic slavery and the sympathetic and testamentary discourses within…

  • HIST 465: Mestizos, Métis, and Mulattos: Mixed-Race People in the Atlantic World, 1400-1850

    HIST 465: Mestizos, Métis, and Mulattos: Mixed-Race People in the Atlantic World, 1400-1850 Lawrence University, Appleton Wisconsin Fall 2012 This course examines how race worked in the Atlantic World (Africa, Europe, and the Americas) between 1400 and 1850 through the perspectives of mixed-race individuals and communities. We will use a comparative framework to understand how…

  • ASTD 393-03 – Mixed Race America

    ASTD 393-03 – Mixed Race America Saint Louis University Fall 2012 Heidi Ardizzone, Assistant Professor of American Studies  Despite popular images of American as a “melting” both of races and ethnicities, our institutions, values, and practices have often tried to create or maintain spatial and social distance between groups defined as racially different. This course…

  • AFAM 349a/AMST 326a/WGSS 388a: Interraciality and Hybridity

    AFAM 349a/AMST 326a/WGSS 388a: Interraciality and Hybridity Yale University Fall 2011 Naomi Pabst, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and American Studies Yale University Examination of mixed-race matters in both literary and critical writings, primarily within the black/white schema.  Historical and current questions of black and interracial identity; the contemporary “mixed race movement” and the…