Mixed Race Studies

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  • Hypodescent: New Work by Gabriel Mejia

    Hypodescent: New Work by Gabriel Mejia University of Wisconsin, Madison George L. Mosse Humanities Building 7th Floor Gallery Room 7240 455 North Park Street 2010-12-11 through 2010-12-16 Gabriel Mejia All events are free and open to the public. Closing Reception: 2010-12-16, 19:00-21:00 CST (Local Time). A meditation on identity and the social constructs of racial…

  • Who’s White? Who’s Black? Who Knows?

    Who’s White? Who’s Black? Who Knows? Time Magazine: Healthland Friday, 2010-12-10 Jeffrey Kluger, Senior Editor Never mind what you’ve heard. Halle Berry was not the first black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress. She was actually the 74th white one. And never mind all this talk about America electing its first black…

  • Study Looks at Biracial Assignment

    Study Looks at Biracial Assignment The Harvard Crimson 2010-12-13 Hana N. Rouse, Crimson Staff Writer People classify biracial children as members of the minority parent group People have the tendency to classify those of biracial descent as members of their minority parent group rather than as equal members of both races, according to a recent…

  • Natasha Trethewey: 2010

    Natasha Trethewey: 2010 Littoral: The Journal of Key West Literary Seminar 2010-03-17 Arlo Haskell Natasha Trethewey is the author of three collections of poetry, including Native Guard, which won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize, Bellocq’s Ophelia, and Domestic Work, which won the inaugural Cave Canem Poetry Prize. A native of Mississippi, a member of the Dark…

  • French110s: From Haiti to New Orleans

    French110s: From Haiti to New Orleans John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Duke University Fall 2010 Deborah Jenson Haiti Lab: Undergraduate Opportunities The first Humanities Laboratory at Duke, one of the key goals of the Haiti Lab is to bring innovative, interdisciplinary research more fully into the undergraduate experience at Duke and, indeed, to invite undergraduates…

  • “War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art”

    “War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art” Critical Ethnic Studies Association Conference University of California, Riverside Critical Ethnic Studies and the Future of Genocide: Settler Colonialism/Heteropatriarchy/White Supremacy 2011-03-10 through 2011-03-12 Laura Kina, Associate Professor of Art, Media, and Design and distinguished Vincent de Paul Professor DePaul University Wei Ming Dariotis, Associate Professor Asian American…

  • ASNAMST 173S: Transcultural and Multiethnic Lives: Contexts, Controversies, and Challenges (AFRICAAM 173S, CSRE 173S)

    ASNAMST 173S: Transcultural and Multiethnic Lives: Contexts, Controversies, and Challenges (AFRICAAM 173S, CSRE 173S) Stanford University Spring 2011 Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu Lived experience of people who dwell in the border world of race and nation where they negotiate transcultural and multiethnic identities and politics. Comparative, historical, and global contexts such as family and class. Controversies, such…

  • The Browning and Yellowing of Whiteness

    The Browning and Yellowing of Whiteness The Black Commentator 2005 Tamara K. Nopper, Adjunct Professor of Asian American Studies University of Pennsylvania Latino/as and Asians Americans do not necessarily reject dominant culture and ideology when it comes to racial politics. A Review of Who is White?: Latinos, Asians, and the New Black/Nonblack Divide by George…

  • AAS 4570 – Passing in African-American Imagination

    AAS 4570 – Passing in African-American Imagination University of Virginia The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American & African Studies Spring 2011 Alisha Gaines, Post-Doctoral Fellow (English) Duke University This course considers the canonical African American literary tradition and popular culture texts that think through the boundaries of blackness and identity through the organizing trope…

  • SOCI 006 601 – Race and Ethnic Relations

    SOCI 006 601 – Race and Ethnic Relations University of Pennsylvania College of Liberal and Professional Studies Spring 2011 Tamara Nopper, Adjunct Professor of Asian American Studies The election of Barack Obama as the United States’ first Black president has raised questions about whether we have entered a post-racial society. This course examines the idea…