{"id":26668,"date":"2012-11-24T20:50:23","date_gmt":"2012-11-24T20:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26668"},"modified":"2012-11-24T20:50:23","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T20:50:23","slug":"critical-theories-hybridity-and-african-diaspora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26668","title":{"rendered":"Critical Theories: Hybridity and African Diaspora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncas.rutgers.edu\/department-english\/graduate-school-spring-2012-courses\" target=\"_blank\">Critical Theories: Hybridity and African Diaspora<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rutgers University, Newark<br \/>\nSpring 2013<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncas.rutgers.edu\/belinda-edmondson\" target=\"_blank\">Belinda Edmondson<\/a><\/strong>, Professor and Director, Women\u2019s &amp; Gender Studies<\/p>\n<p>This course will investigate the concept of the hybrid society, or &#8220;hybridity&#8221;, in African-American and Caribbean literature. Hybridity here refers to both culturally and ethnically hybrid communities and peoples. Specifically, we will concentrate on the ambivalent representations of the multiracial ideal for African-descended societies, from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/W._E._B._Du_Bois\" target=\"_blank\">W.E.B. DuBois&#8217;<\/a> articulation of African-American identity as a dual, or &#8220;double-voiced&#8221;, one, to Caribbean images of the mixed-race citizen as the core of a uniquely Caribbean identity. Course readings will emphasize historical context as well as the theoretical foundations for hybridity discourse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critical Theories: Hybridity and African Diaspora Rutgers University, Newark Spring 2013 Belinda Edmondson, Professor and Director, Women\u2019s &amp; Gender Studies This course will investigate the concept of the hybrid society, or &#8220;hybridity&#8221;, in African-American and Caribbean literature. Hybridity here refers to both culturally and ethnically hybrid communities and peoples. Specifically, we will concentrate on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,1564,1196,8,20],"tags":[12865,2536],"class_list":["post-26668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latincarib","category-courses","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-belinda-edmondson","tag-rutgers-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26668","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=26668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}