{"id":24362,"date":"2012-07-15T21:38:35","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T21:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=24362"},"modified":"2012-07-15T21:38:35","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T21:38:35","slug":"hist-1133-mongrel-america-miscegenation-passing-and-the-myth-of-racial-purity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=24362","title":{"rendered":"HIST 1133-Mongrel America: Miscegenation, Passing, and the Myth of Racial Purity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/courses.cornell.edu\/preview_course_nopop.php?catoid=14&amp;coid=190267\" target=\"_blank\">HIST 1133-Mongrel America: Miscegenation, Passing, and the Myth of Racial Purity<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cornell University<br \/>\nFall 2012<\/p>\n<p>Racial divisions have served as potent tools for consolidating power, upholding unjust practices, and shaping the American historical imagination. Whether in the form of slavery, segregation, extralegal violence, or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3208\" target=\"_blank\">one-drop rule<\/a>, the insistence on preserving racial distinctions reflects a desire among some Americans to cling to a myth of racial purity. Despite persistent efforts to enforce these boundaries, other Americans have consistently blurred, transgressed, and undermined these seemingly rigid racial categories. Drawing on texts by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Jefferson\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Jefferson<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nella_Larsen\" target=\"_blank\">Nella Larsen<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Baldwin\" target=\"_blank\">James Baldwin<\/a>, and others, this class will explore the quixotic desire for white racial purity, the reality of \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=553\" target=\"_blank\">amalgamation<\/a>,\u2019 and the relationship between the two. Ultimately, students will analyze the impact of \u2018Mongrel America\u2019 on the ways in which Americans understand citizenship and their history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIST 1133-Mongrel America: Miscegenation, Passing, and the Myth of Racial Purity Cornell University Fall 2012 Racial divisions have served as potent tools for consolidating power, upholding unjust practices, and shaping the American historical imagination. Whether in the form of slavery, segregation, extralegal violence, or the one-drop rule, the insistence on preserving racial distinctions reflects a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1564,459,1196,8,6462,20],"tags":[4984],"class_list":["post-24362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courses","category-history","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-cornell-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24362","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=24362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}