Tag: Oberlin College

  • How could I identify as Black when I’ve never experienced racism directly? Why do I have to identify as a particular race? Why can’t I just be me?

  • Mixed Dreams: Exploring “Multi” Experiences in the U.S. EXCO (Experimental College) Spring 2011 Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio Nicole Asong Nfonoyim The experiences and identities of mixed-race people in the United States have often been marginalized if not rendered invisible, silenced and subsumed under the dominant black-white binary. While mixed identities have been part of U.S.…

  •  Mixed Dreams: A Symposium on Multiracial Identities in the United States 2010-10-15 through 2010-10-20 Oberlin College Oberlin, Ohio At its root, Mixed Dreams: A Symposium on Multiracial Identities in the U.S. aims to create a space to discuss and interrogate historical and contemporary perspectives on multiraciality and the “multiracial experiences” of people identifying as bi-racial,…

  • History 328: American Mixed Blood Oberlin College Department of History Fall 2009 Pablo Mitchell, Eric and Jane Nord Associate Professor of History and Comparative American Studies Oberlin College From the coyote and the half-breed to the “tragic” mulatto, people of mixed ethnic and racial heritage occupy a conflicted and controversial place in American history. This…

  • Half-Yella: Mixed Race Asian American Art [Lecture] Oberlin College King 106 2010-04-29, 16:30 to 17:30 EDT (Local Time) Laura Kina, Professor of Art DePaul University Laura Kina is an artist, independent curator, and scholar whose research focuses on Asian American art and critical mixed race studies. She is an Associate Professor of Art, Media and…