{"id":23412,"date":"2012-05-26T22:48:36","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T22:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=23412"},"modified":"2012-06-25T21:42:55","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T21:42:55","slug":"19-half-frican-black-identity-in-the-caribbean-england-and-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=23412","title":{"rendered":"(19) Half-frican: Black Identity in the Caribbean, England, and the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wooster.edu\/Academics\/First-year-Seminar\/FYS-2011\/Half-frican\" target=\"_blank\">(19) Half-frican: Black Identity in the Caribbean, England, and the United States<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Colloge of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio<br \/>\n2011<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wooster.edu\/Academics\/Areas-of-Study\/history\/faculty-staff\/king\" target=\"_blank\">Shannon King<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of History<\/p>\n<p>During the last presidential election, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rush_Limbaugh\" target=\"_blank\">Rush Limbaugh<\/a>, the controversial and conservative Republican radio personality, dubbed <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack H. Obama<\/a>, our 44th President of the United States, as a \u201cHalf-frican.\u201d Limbaugh, in his own way, was getting at Obama&#8217;s multiracial and multicultural background, which at the time seemed unusual to many Americans. In this seminar, we will examine black identity by engaging literature, history, autobiography, and memoir that address how people of African descent have grappled with their own identity in the Caribbean, England, and the United States. <strong>The objective of the seminar is to de-center the notion that black identity and culture is based on skin color or necessarily nationality by illustrating how identity formation is a process.<\/strong> By using an interdisciplinary approach as well as a range of sources, we will learn how immigration, wars, racism, and other social and political forces forged black identity. Readings may include: <em>Notes on a Native Son<\/em> by James Baldwin; <em>A Mercy<\/em> by Toni Morrison; <em>Color me English<\/em> by Caryl Phillips; and <em>Brother, I\u2019m Dying<\/em> by Edwidge Danticat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(19) Half-frican: Black Identity in the Caribbean, England, and the United States The Colloge of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio 2011 Shannon King, Assistant Professor of History During the last presidential election, Rush Limbaugh, the controversial and conservative Republican radio personality, dubbed Barack H. Obama, our 44th President of the United States, as a \u201cHalf-frican.\u201d Limbaugh, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1564,459,8,20],"tags":[10904,10903],"class_list":["post-23412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courses","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-college-of-wooster","tag-shannon-king"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23412","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=23412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}