Mixed Race Studies

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  • Love in black and white

    Love in black and white Princeton Alumni Weekly 2009-04-22 Lawrence Otis Graham ’83 Martha Sandweiss examines racial passing in America Clarence King, a celebrated explorer, geologist, and surveyor in 19th-century America, chose to set that identity aside — and live as a working-class black man during a time of harsh racial segregation in the United…

  • 346-Comparative Ethnic Literatures (Reg. No. 22253)

    346-Comparative Ethnic Literatures (Reg. No. 22253) University of Buffalo, The State University of New York Spring 2013 Susan Muchshima Moynihan, Assistant Professor of English This course brings together Asian American and African American texts to destabilize our understandings of race; to situate racial formations in political and historical moments marked by the intersections of race,…

  • Barack Obama and the Contest for Identity through Self-Representation: HIST-UA 413

    Barack Obama and the Contest for Identity through Self-Representation: HIST-UA 413 New York University Spring 2013 Jeffrey Sammons, Professor of History This course will explore the life and career path of the nation’s first “black” president through a focus on his two autobiographies, which will be studied for their content, style, and grounding in the…

  • AAS 490: Special Topics in Black World Studies: Section 008: Race and “Black Indians”

    AAS 490: Special Topics in Black World Studies: Section 008: Race and “Black Indians” University of Michigan Winter 2013 Theme Semester Courses Tiya Miles, Professor of American Culture, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Native American Studies This seven week mini course is a special winter 2013 offering for the LSA Theme Semester on Race. The…

  • SOCI 329-Multiracial America

    SOCI 329-Multiracial America Rice University 2013-2014 Multiracial America examines the phenomenon of race mixing (e.g. interracial interaction, multiracial identity) from a sociological perspective. The course covers the legal, political, and cultural contexts of interracial interaction and how these impact current understanding of what it means to be “mixed race.” Recommended Prerequisite(s): SOCI 101.

  • RRS 625: Mixed Race Studies: A Comparative Focus

    RRS 625: Mixed Race Studies: A Comparative Focus San Francisco State University Spring 2013 Introduction to the field of mixed race studies from a comparative and ethnic studies perspective. Exploration of various multiracial issues for ethnic studies from the viewpoint of scholars and cultural expressionists who are themselves of mixed-racial heritage. [Formerly ETHS 625]

  • Philosophy of Race (3050)

    Philosophy of Race (3050) Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina Fall 2013 Kim Hall, Professor of Philosophy What is race?  What is the relationship between the category of race and racism?  What is the relationship between race and personal identity?  How do multiracial identities raise questions about the meaning of race and its relationship to…

  • American Multicultural Studies (AMCS) 374: The Multiracial Experience

    American Multicultural Studies (AMCS) 374: The Multiracial Experience Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California 2012-2013 Elenita Fe (Leny) M Strobel, Associate Professor and Chair of American Multicultural Studies Department A general survey of the historical and contemporary experience of people claiming more than one racial or ethnic background. Emphasis will be given to inter-racial relations,…

  • Letter documenting the struggle of two children’s attempt to attend school

    Letter documenting the struggle of two children’s attempt to attend school Special Collections University of Southern Mississippi Libraries Item of the Month March 2010 Jennifer Brannock, Special Collections Librarian The Mississippi Department of Archives and History: Sovereignty Commission Online [Note from Steven F. Riley: For more on Newton Knight, Rachel Knight, and the “Free State…

  • The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War (Scarborough review)

    The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War (Scarborough review) Civil War History Volume 49, Number 1, March 2003 pages 72-74 DOI: 10.1353/cwh.2003.0026 William Kauffman Scarborough, Professor Emeritus of History University of Southern Mississippi The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War. By Victoria E. Bynum. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,…