{"id":27663,"date":"2013-01-17T16:37:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T16:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=27663"},"modified":"2013-01-17T16:37:31","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T16:37:31","slug":"white-negroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=27663","title":{"rendered":"White Negroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies\/courses\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">White Negroes<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/g\/gmfoster\/\" target=\"_blank\">Guy Foster<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of English<\/p>\n<p>Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine<br \/>\nAfricana Studies\/Gender and Women&#8217;s Studies<br \/>\nSpring 2013<\/p>\n<p>Close readings of literary and filmic texts that interrogate widespread beliefs in the fixity of racial categories and the broad assumptions these beliefs often engender. Investigates \u201cwhiteness\u201d and \u201cblackness\u201d as unstable and fractured ideological constructs. These are constructs that, while socially and historically produced, are no less \u201creal\u201d in their tangible effects, whether internal or external. Includes works by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_W._Chesnutt\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Chesnutt<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nella_Larsen\" target=\"_blank\">Nella Larsen<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norman_Mailer\" target=\"_blank\">Norman Mailer<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jack_Kerouac\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Kerouac<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Howard_Griffin\" target=\"_blank\">John Howard Griffin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sandra_Bernhard\" target=\"_blank\">Sandra Bernhard<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Warren_Beatty\" target=\"_blank\">Warren Beatty<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White Negroes Guy Foster, Assistant Professor of English Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine Africana Studies\/Gender and Women&#8217;s Studies Spring 2013 Close readings of literary and filmic texts that interrogate widespread beliefs in the fixity of racial categories and the broad assumptions these beliefs often engender. Investigates \u201cwhiteness\u201d and \u201cblackness\u201d as unstable and fractured ideological constructs. These [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1564,1196,8,20],"tags":[2396,333,898,897,13406,13408,1308,87,13407,13409,13410],"class_list":["post-27663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courses","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-bowdoin-college","tag-charles-chesnutt","tag-charles-w-chesnutt","tag-charles-waddell-chesnutt","tag-guy-foster","tag-jack-kerouac","tag-john-howard-griffin","tag-nella-larsen","tag-norman-mailer","tag-sandra-bernhard","tag-warren-beatty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27663","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=27663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}