{"id":10520,"date":"2010-12-05T05:16:04","date_gmt":"2010-12-05T05:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=10520"},"modified":"2011-06-25T20:03:58","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T20:03:58","slug":"media-and-performance-in-racial-passing-2007-heterodox-identities-lcst-2007-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=10520","title":{"rendered":"Media and Performance in Racial Passing: 2007 Heterodox Identities &#8211; LCST 2007 A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lang.edu\/courses\/coursedesc.cfm?TERM=200830&amp;ID=6137\" target=\"_blank\">Media and Performance in Racial Passing: 2007 Heterodox Identities &#8211; LCST 2007 A<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eugene Lang College<br \/>\nThe New School for Liberal Arts<br \/>\nSpring 2009<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newschool.edu\/lang\/faculty.aspx?id=1750\" target=\"_blank\">Orville Lee<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Sociology<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">Racial passing<\/a> is a ubiquitous and contentious feature of social and cultural life in the United States. Taking \u201cpassing\u201d as an object of analysis, <strong>this course is organized around the question of whether social identity should be understood as a set of essential characteristics or as a type of \u201cperformance.\u201d<\/strong> Readings and discussions center on the conceptualization of race; the dynamics and meaning of racial passing; the movement for the recognition of biracial identities; and the question of racial \u201cauthenticity\u201d and the politics of the self. The case of racial passing is also compared to other cases of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heterodoxy\" target=\"_blank\">heterodox<\/a> identity involving gender, sexuality, and social class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media and Performance in Racial Passing: 2007 Heterodox Identities &#8211; LCST 2007 A Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts Spring 2009 Orville Lee, Assistant Professor of Sociology Racial passing is a ubiquitous and contentious feature of social and cultural life in the United States. Taking \u201cpassing\u201d as an object of analysis, this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1564,8,6462,394,20],"tags":[4630,1955,4631],"class_list":["post-10520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courses","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-eugene-lang-college","tag-orville-lee","tag-the-new-school-for-liberal-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}