{"id":14660,"date":"2011-07-02T04:22:51","date_gmt":"2011-07-02T04:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=14660"},"modified":"2015-11-29T18:35:56","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T18:35:56","slug":"mixed-in-america-race-religion-and-memoir-reli-280-afan-282-or-amst-242","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=14660","title":{"rendered":"Mixed in America: Race, Religion, and Memoir (RELI 280, AFAN 282, or AMST 242)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/iasext.wesleyan.edu\/regprod\/!wesmaps_page.html?crse=011746&amp;term=1121\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed in America: Race, Religion, and Memoir (RELI 280, AFAN 282, or AMST 242)<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wesleyan University<br \/>\nSpring 2012<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wesep.wesleyan.edu\/cgi-perl\/faculty\/faculty_page\/faculty_page.cgi\/?faculty=emcalister\" target=\"_blank\">Elizabeth McAlister<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Religion<\/p>\n<p>This course examines the history of &#8220;mixed-race&#8221; and &#8220;interfaith&#8221; identities in America. Using the genre of the memoir as a focusing lens, we will look at the various ways that Americans of mixed heritage have found a place, crafted an identity, and made meaning out of being considered &#8220;mixed.&#8221; How has being multiracial or bi-religious changed in the course of history in the United States? What has occasioned these changes, and what patterns can we observe? We will explore questions of racial construction; religious boundary-making; rites of passage, gender, sexuality and marriage; and some literary and media representations of mixed-heritage people.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"https:\/\/iasext.wesleyan.edu\/regprod\/!wesmaps_page.html?crse=011746&amp;term=1121\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed in America: Race, Religion, and Memoir (RELI 280, AFAN 282, or AMST 242) Wesleyan University Spring 2012 Elizabeth McAlister, Associate Professor of Religion This course examines the history of &#8220;mixed-race&#8221; and &#8220;interfaith&#8221; identities in America. Using the genre of the memoir as a focusing lens, we will look at the various ways that Americans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1564,459,125,8,820,20],"tags":[6732,4573],"class_list":["post-14660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courses","category-history","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-usa","tag-elizabeth-mcalister","tag-wesleyan-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14660","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=14660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44364,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14660\/revisions\/44364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}