{"id":49013,"date":"2016-09-09T17:23:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T17:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49013"},"modified":"2016-11-25T01:43:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T01:43:06","slug":"cser-w4701-troubling-the-color-passing-inter-racial-sex-and-ethnic-ambiguity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49013","title":{"rendered":"CSER\u00a0W4701\u00a0Troubling the Color: Passing, Inter-racial Sex, and Ethnic Ambiguity."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.barnard.edu\/barnard-college\/courses-instruction\/course-search\/?term=3&amp;pl=0&amp;ph=10&amp;college=BC\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>CSER\u00a0W4701\u00a0Troubling the Color: Passing, Inter-racial Sex, and Ethnic Ambiguity.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnard.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Barnard College<\/a><br \/>\nNew York, New York<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.barnard.edu\/barnard-college\/courses-instruction\/course-search\/?term=3&amp;pl=0&amp;ph=10&amp;college=BC\" target=\"_blank\">2016-17 Catalogue<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/karljacoby.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Karl Jacoby<\/b><\/a>, Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>Columbia University, New York, New York<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">Passing<\/a>, remarked <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/W._E._B._Du_Bois\" target=\"_blank\">W.E.B. Du Bois<\/a> in 1929, \u201cis a petty, silly matter of no real importance which another generation will comprehend with great difficulty.\u201d\u00a0 Yet passing and related phenomena such as intermarriage continue to raise profound challenges to the U.S.\u2019s racial hierarchy.\u00a0 How does one differentiate the members of one race from another?\u00a0 What happens when an individual\u2019s background combines several supposed races?\u00a0 What do such uncertainties suggest as to the stability of race as a concept?\u00a0 How might racial passing intersect with other forms of reinvention (women passing as men, queers passing as straight, Jews passing as gentiles)?\u00a0 Is passing, as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Langston_Hughes\" target=\"_blank\">Langston Hughes<\/a> once put it, an ethical response to the injustices of white supremacy: \u201cMost Negroes feel that bigoted white persons deserve to be cheated and fooled since the way they behave towards us makes no moral sense at all\u201d? \u00a0Or are passers turning their backs on African-American notions of community and solidarity?\u00a0 Such dilemmas rendered passing a potent topic not only for turn-of-the-century policy makers but artists and intellectuals as well. \u00a0The era\u2019s literature and theater referenced the phenomenon, and celebrated cases of racial passing riveted the public\u2019s attention.\u00a0\u00a0This class will address the complex historical, artistic, and cultural issues that passing has raised in American life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CSER\u00a0W4701\u00a0Troubling the Color: Passing, Inter-racial Sex, and Ethnic Ambiguity. Barnard College New York, New York 2016-17 Catalogue Karl Jacoby, Professor of History Columbia University, New York, New York Passing, remarked W.E.B. Du Bois in 1929, \u201cis a petty, silly matter of no real importance which another generation will comprehend with great difficulty.\u201d\u00a0 Yet passing and [&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":[7434,19293],"class_list":["post-49013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courses","category-history","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-barnard-college","tag-karl-jacoby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49013","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=49013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49014,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49013\/revisions\/49014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}