{"id":19524,"date":"2012-01-04T03:04:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T03:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=19524"},"modified":"2012-01-04T03:34:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T03:34:00","slug":"marley-class-inspires-um-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=19524","title":{"rendered":"Marley class inspires UM students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfltimes.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=2550&amp;Itemid=144\" target=\"_blank\">Marley class inspires UM students<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfltimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">South Florida Times<\/a><br \/>\n2009-09-08<\/p>\n<p><strong>Juliana Accioly<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CORAL GABLES \u2014 On a recent weekday, students at the University of Miami watched a screen in front of a blackboard ignite with lively performances of music legend <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bob_Marley\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Marley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Then, suddenly, those images were juxtaposed with graphic footage of segregation and violence.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to English lectures, the ones given by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.as.miami.edu\/english\/people\/composition#rpanton\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Rachel Panton<\/a> are far from routine.<\/p>\n<p>Panton\u2019s course, titled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=19526\" target=\"_blank\">Mix Up, Mix Up: Reviewing Bob Marley as the Militant Mulatto<\/a>\u201d has been a recurring hit among UM undergraduates.\u00a0 Since 2006, more than 400 students have enrolled in the class.\u00a0 They examine Marley\u2019s life and music through his social and political times, and his contribution to the international recognition of reggae and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rastafari_movement\" target=\"_blank\">Rastafari<\/a> as empowering black power movements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is all this iconography of Bob Marley just floating out there,\u201d Panton told the <em>South Florida Times<\/em>. \u201cThis course analyzes the context in which he became a luminary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The class also explores the singer\u2019s mixed heritage. He was born the son of a Jamaican black mother and an English white father at a time when intermixing of races was not rare, but still not welcome.<\/p>\n<p>Marley chose to identify himself as black.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarley is an interesting figure because most biracial people don\u2019t see the dichotomy \u2018either or,\u2019 but think of themselves as \u2018both and,\u2019\u201d said Panton, alluding to her own black-white heritage&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfltimes.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=2550&amp;Itemid=144\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marley class inspires UM students South Florida Times 2009-09-08 Juliana Accioly CORAL GABLES \u2014 On a recent weekday, students at the University of Miami watched a screen in front of a blackboard ignite with lively performances of music legend Bob Marley. Then, suddenly, those images were juxtaposed with graphic footage of segregation and violence. 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