{"id":23731,"date":"2012-06-12T02:45:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=23731"},"modified":"2016-11-27T22:57:48","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T22:57:48","slug":"performance-studies-interracialism-performing-mixed-race-h42-2090","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=23731","title":{"rendered":"Performance Studies: Interracialism: Performing Mixed Race (H42.2090)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/americanstudies.as.nyu.edu\/object\/ams.grad.coursearchive#performance\" target=\"_blank\">Performance Studies: Interracialism: Performing Mixed Race (H42.2090)<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New York University<br \/>\nDepartment of Social &amp; Cultural Analysis: American Studies<\/p>\n<p>This course will survey the emergent field of\u00a0 &#8216;critical mixed race studies&#8217; with a particular emphasis on the black experience in the Americas. How have people of African descent been alternately excluded from and incorporated into discourses of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=14551\" target=\"_blank\">mestizaje<\/a><\/em>? What role has performance played in the construction of racial categories like &#8216;the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">mulatto<\/a>&#8216; and &#8216;the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3208\" target=\"_blank\">one-drop rule<\/a>&#8216;? How have black people sought to alternately challenge and exploit those constructions? Has the trope of &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">passing<\/a>&#8216; helped preserve an essentialist concept of race amidst widespread racial mixing? Do recent developments around the performance of identity point toward a moment in black cultural politics that is leading us &#8216;beyond passing&#8217;? We will read broadly and interdisciplinarily, examining the law, politics, performance, visual culture, literature, critical theory, statistics, sociology, philosophy and anthropology as various sites in which interracialism has historically been staged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Performance Studies: Interracialism: Performing Mixed Race (H42.2090) New York University Department of Social &amp; Cultural Analysis: American Studies This course will survey the emergent field of\u00a0 &#8216;critical mixed race studies&#8217; with a particular emphasis on the black experience in the Americas. How have people of African descent been alternately excluded from and incorporated into discourses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,1564,1467,8,6941,26,394,20],"tags":[6306],"class_list":["post-23731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-courses","category-law","category-media-archive","category-philosophy","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-new-york-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23731","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=23731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50300,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23731\/revisions\/50300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}