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  • AMST 3407 – Racial Borders and American Cinema

    This class explores how re-occurring images of racial and ethnic minorities such as African Americans, Jews, Asians, Native Americans and Latino/as are represented in film and shows visual images of racial interactions and boundaries of human relations that tackle topics such as immigration, inter-racial relationships and racial passing.

  • UVA and the History of Race: Eugenics, the Racial Integrity Act, Health Disparities

    By the start of the 20th century, the University of Virginia had become a center of an emerging new strain of racism – eugenics – that would create and perpetuate myths created under the guise of scientific research, but ultimately was intended to demonstrate white racial superiority.

  • U.Va. Poetry Professor Rita Dove’s ‘Sonata Mulattica’ to be Adapted for Film

    U.Va. Poetry Professor Rita Dove’s ‘Sonata Mulattica’ to be Adapted for Film UVA Today Charlottesville, Virginia 2013-05-07 Anne E. Bromley, Associate Little did poet Rita Dove know when she published her book, “Sonata Mulattica,” that it would go beyond rescuing from obscurity a 19th-century, Afro-European violin virtuoso named George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower. Now that book of…

  • ENLT 2513 Major Authors of American Literature: Race and Performance

    ENLT 2513 Major Authors of American Literature: Race and Performance University of Virginia Spring 2015 Sarah Ingle, Lecturer This course will explore representations of race and performance in American literature and culture from the eighteenth century to the present. We will examine cultural phenomena such as blackface minstrel shows, stories of racial “passing,” and a…

  • COLA Seminar Probes Shifting Identity of ‘Whiteness’ in America

    COLA Seminar Probes Shifting Identity of ‘Whiteness’ in America University of Virginia College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences 2014-11-17 Anne Bromley, Associate UVA Today The category of “white” as the majority race against which other groups have been described in the United States might seem well-defined, but it has been anything but that…

  • “What Are You?” Multiracial Identity and the Persistence of Racism in a “Post-Racial” Society

    “What Are You?” Multiracial Identity and the Persistence of Racism in a “Post-Racial” Society University of Virginia 2014 Hephzibah Virginia Strmic-Pawl In 2000, and for the first time, the U.S. Census allowed individuals to “mark one or more” races, and now the U.S. Census projects that those who choose two or more races will triple…

  • Loving in Virginia: A teacher’s work brings new life to an old case.

    Loving in Virginia: A teacher’s work brings new life to an old case. University of Virginia College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Newsletter February 2013 Caroline County, Virginia, 1958. Newlyweds Richard and Mildred Loving wake at 2 a.m. to the sound of their front door being kicked in. Before they are out of…

  • ENLT 252 Mestizas, Halfies, and Others

    ENLT 252 Mestizas, Halfies, and Others University of Virginia Fall 2008 How does your family background affect the way that the way that you see yourself?  How others in the United States see you?  In this class we will investigate novels, short stories, and poems that foreground the multicultural and intercultural make-up of the United…

  • 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…