{"id":53438,"date":"2017-04-12T01:51:53","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T01:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53438"},"modified":"2018-05-20T00:37:09","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T00:37:09","slug":"passing-and-performing-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53438","title":{"rendered":"Passing and Performing Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xavier.edu\/english-department\/ENGL-205-Literature-the-Moral-Imagination.cfm#19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Passing and Performing Identity<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio<br \/>\nFall 2017<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xavier.edu\/campusuite25\/modules\/faculty.cfm?faculty_id=5014&amp;grp_id=25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Jennifer McFarlane Harris<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of English<\/p>\n<p>In this course, we will read novels that investigate the phenomenon of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">racial passing<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States<\/a>, whereby &#8220;black&#8221; persons light-skinned enough to appear &#8220;white&#8221; cross the color line to live as white people. Along the way, we will read a smattering of cultural theory on the social construction of race, gender, sexuality, socioeconomic class, etc., and what it means to &#8220;perform&#8221; identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this course, we will read novels that investigate the phenomenon of racial passing in the United States, whereby &#8220;black&#8221; persons light-skinned enough to appear &#8220;white&#8221; cross the color line to live as white people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1564,1196,8,6462,20],"tags":[26828,26829],"class_list":["post-53438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courses","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-jennifer-mcfarlane-harris","tag-xavier-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53438","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=53438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56441,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53438\/revisions\/56441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}