{"id":41252,"date":"2015-05-29T19:14:51","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T19:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41252"},"modified":"2015-06-03T00:48:55","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T00:48:55","slug":"471-mixed-race-in-a-box-teaching-mixed-race-in-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41252","title":{"rendered":"#471: Mixed Race in a Box: Teaching Mixed Race in the 21st Century"},"content":{"rendered":"

#471: Mixed Race in a Box: Teaching Mixed Race in the 21st Century<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The 28th Annual National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE)<\/a>
\nWashington Hilton<\/a>
\n1919 Connecticut Avenue, NW
\nWashington, DC 20009
\n2015-05-26 through 2015-05-30<\/p>\n

Friday, 2015-05-29, 15:30-17:30 EDT (Local Time)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In Fall 2013, The Asian American Literary Review<\/a> published Mixed Race in a Box<\/a><\/em>, a multimedia project equal parts art piece, anthology, and innovative educational tool. It has since been adopted as a course text for teaching race and mixed race in over 80 college and university classrooms in 6 countries\u2014the U.S., Ireland, Argentina, Hong Kong, Poland, and Germany.<\/p>\n

Popular consciousness of \u201cmultiracialism\u201d is at an all-time high, and with it, student (and faculty) needs for reflecting personally and academically on mixed identities and the histories and realities of mixed race. But what exactly does it mean to teach mixed race? What are we teaching, and how, and why? Where\u2014in what disciplines? And who are we teaching\u2014what understandings of race and mixed race are our students, across the U.S. and beyond, bringing into the classroom?<\/p>\n

This proposed session will outline Mixed Race in a Box<\/em> as a pedagogical experiment, opening to a larger discussion of teaching mixed race and race more generally. It will explore how we can best equip students and teachers to think critically about race while, as the saying goes, \u201cmeeting them where they are.\u201d Produced by an editorial team of University of Maryland students, featuring collaborative projects by leading artists, scholars, poets, and writers, the Box includes a range of unusual materials\u2014a foldout map of mixed Native poetics, a deck of playing cards, three pocket books, photo slideshows and video art\u2014and offers a wealth of different approaches to teaching race and mixed race. The session will examine some of these particular strategies and discuss the challenges and successes of employing them in various classrooms, with varying student constituencies, across the country. Prospective presenters will include a senior editor of the Box<\/em>, a student editor of the Box<\/em>, and two scholar-writers who contributed pieces to the Box and taught it in their respective classrooms.<\/p>\n

Presenters<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jennifer Kwon Dobbs<\/strong><\/a>
\nSt. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota<\/em><\/p>\n

Zohra Saed<\/a><\/strong>
\nHunter College, City University of New York, Brooklyn, New York<\/em><\/p>\n

Lawrence-Minh Davis<\/a><\/strong>, Director
\nAsian American Literary Review, College Park, Maryland<\/em><\/p>\n

Andrew Mayton<\/a><\/strong>
\nUniversity of Maryland, College Park<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

#471: Mixed Race in a Box: Teaching Mixed Race in the 21st Century The 28th Annual National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE) Washington Hilton 1919 Connecticut Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20009 2015-05-26 through 2015-05-30 Friday, 2015-05-29, 15:30-17:30 EDT (Local Time) In Fall 2013, The Asian American Literary Review published Mixed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2895,13,8,23,20],"tags":[11655,20132,11654,20130,13824,20078,1567,11653,1586,20131],"class_list":["post-41252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-life","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-teaching","category-usa","tag-aalr","tag-andrew-mayton","tag-asian-american-literary-review","tag-jennifer-kwon-dobbs","tag-lawrence-minh-davis","tag-national-conference-on-race-ethnicity-in-american-higher-education","tag-ncore","tag-the-asian-american-literary-review","tag-university-of-maryland","tag-zohra-saed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41252","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=41252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}