{"id":18327,"date":"2011-11-21T01:51:33","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T01:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=18327"},"modified":"2011-11-21T01:51:33","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T01:51:33","slug":"aas-310-mixed-race-and-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=18327","title":{"rendered":"AAS 310: Mixed Race And The Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.utexas.edu\/cola\/centers\/aas\/courses\/\" target=\"_blank\">AAS 310: Mixed Race And The Media<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University of Texas, Austin<br \/>\nCenter for Asian American Studies<br \/>\nSpring 2012<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.utexas.edu\/cola\/centers\/aas\/faculty\/ac33275\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Cho<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Instructor<\/p>\n<p>What is \u201crace,\u201d and what does it mean to be \u201cmixed\u201d? How is mass media responsible for channeling fears, desires, and anxieties about \u201cmixed\u201d bodies? Why are \u201cmixed race\u201d bodies suddenly desirable and chic? Can one exist in two or more categories at the same time? How do people think of \u201cmixedness\u201d in the U.S., and how is it different in the Caribbean, Mexico, and Brazil? Why do people care so much? Why do categories matter? Isn\u2019t everyone \u201cmixed\u201d somehow? Where do you fit in?<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThis course will give students the tools to critically respond to these questions via a comparative, historically situated study of the representation of &#8220;mixed-race&#8221; people in popular media. Major attention will be paid to special concerns for Asian American populations; it includes substantial attention to African American and Latino populations. Chiefly U.S.-centered, but with a large transnational comparative component analyzing \u201cmixed\u201d racial formation in: North America, Latin America, Caribbean, Brazil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AAS 310: Mixed Race And The Media University of Texas, Austin Center for Asian American Studies Spring 2012 Alexander Cho, Assistant Instructor What is \u201crace,\u201d and what does it mean to be \u201cmixed\u201d? How is mass media responsible for channeling fears, desires, and anxieties about \u201cmixed\u201d bodies? Why are \u201cmixed race\u201d bodies suddenly desirable and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,21,1564,4,394,20],"tags":[8330,5752],"class_list":["post-18327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-courses","category-upcoming-media","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-alexander-cho","tag-university-of-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18327","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=18327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}