AMST 294-03 Mixed Race America: Identity, Culture, and PoliticsPosted in Census/Demographics, Course Offerings, History, Identity Development/Psychology, Law, Media Archive, Politics/Public Policy, Slavery, Social Science, United States on 2012-03-02 21:01Z by Steven |
AMST 294-03 Mixed Race America: Identity, Culture, and Politics
Macalester College
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Spring 2012
This course is an introduction to the animating debates, themes, and issues in Critical Mixed Race Studies. Utilizing critical race theory and postcolonial analysis, we will examine the identities and experiences of multiracial or mixed race people, as well as the ways in which they have played a fundamental role in constructing race and shaping race relations, politics, and culture in the U.S. Topics in this course address the following: conquest and slavery, miscegenation laws, debates about the U.S. Census categories, U.S. militarism, representations of “mixed” people in the media, cultural expressions of “mixed” Americans, transracial adoption, queering mixed race studies, and the Mixed Race/Multiracial Movement.