AmSt 201 W: The American Experience: Institutions and Movements: Mixed Race in AmericaPosted in Course Offerings, Law, Media Archive, Native Americans/First Nation, Social Science, United States on 2012-06-06 18:29Z by Steven |
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 examining fiction, media, and popular culture as well as government documents and official U.S. Government websites. Topics include European and Native American contact; the Dawes Commission; Jim Crow laws and One Drop ideology; U.S. anti-miscegenation laws; Supreme Court decisions; Blood Quotas in Native American and Hawaiian contexts; the Homestead Act and the Akaka Bill; the U.S. Census and Multi-Racial Americans; Mixed Race activism; and the political effect of bi-raciality on President Obama’s election campaign.