{"id":39013,"date":"2014-12-21T01:28:12","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T01:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39013"},"modified":"2014-12-21T01:33:20","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T01:33:20","slug":"english-49-whiteness-and-racial-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39013","title":{"rendered":"English 49, &#8220;Whiteness&#8221; and Racial Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swarthmore.edu\/Humanities\/pschmid1\/engl49.syllabus.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>English 49, &#8220;Whiteness&#8221; and Racial Difference<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania<br \/>\nSpring 1997<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swarthmore.edu\/profile\/peter-schmidt\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Peter Schmidt<\/strong><\/a>, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English Literature<\/p>\n<p>A look at the conflicted ways in which &#8220;racial&#8221; identities and differences have been constructed in past and contemporary cultures, especially in the U.S. Topics given emphasis in the syllabus include why saying &#8220;race doesn&#8217;t matter&#8221; is not enough; how a new debates about the history of race have changed American Studies and feminist studies; how European immigrants to the U.S. became &#8220;white&#8221; and with what benefits and what costs; how popular culture can both resist and perpetuate racist culture; and an introduction to issues of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">passing<\/a>,&#8221; multi-racial identity, and recovering a multiracial past. The format of the class will include both lecture and student-led discussion.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swarthmore.edu\/Humanities\/pschmid1\/engl49.syllabus.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English 49, &#8220;Whiteness&#8221; and Racial Difference Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania Spring 1997 Peter Schmidt, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English Literature A look at the conflicted ways in which &#8220;racial&#8221; identities and differences have been constructed in past and contemporary cultures, especially in the U.S. Topics given emphasis in the syllabus include why saying [&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":[4724,3980],"class_list":["post-39013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courses","category-history","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-peter-schmidt","tag-swarthmore-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39013","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=39013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}