{"id":34543,"date":"2013-11-01T04:01:15","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T04:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34543"},"modified":"2014-01-16T15:30:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T15:30:15","slug":"350445-revisiting-racial-passing-in-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34543","title":{"rendered":"350:445 Revisiting Racial Passing in the 21st Century"},"content":{"rendered":"

350:445 Revisiting Racial Passing in the 21st Century<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
\nSummer 2013<\/p>\n

This is a course on racial passing<\/a>, which many people wrongly believe is an antiquated phenomenon. Passing has historically referred to light-skinned African Americans who use their phenotypes to pretend to be white and enjoy the privileges of whiteness. As we will discuss in our seminar, today people pass in a variety of ways, and not just racially. For example, folks regularly pass economically, religiously, and\/or through gender. In discussing contemporary passing, we will begin with President Barack Obama, who some have argued has engaged in a form of passing by having black skin yet \u201cwhite politics.\u201d<\/p>\n

We will read primary and secondary material on this literary genre, to determine the tropes, images, themes, and formal elements that comprise \u201cthe passing narrative.\u201d We will also consider the ways in which it has been expanded in this \u201cpost-race\u201d era.<\/p>\n

Primary texts will include:<\/p>\n