{"id":59169,"date":"2020-01-11T22:23:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59169"},"modified":"2020-01-11T22:25:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T22:25:23","slug":"engl-205-focus-on-passing-and-performing-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59169","title":{"rendered":"ENGL 205 Focus on: Passing and Performing Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xavier.edu\/english-department\/engl-205-literature-the-moral-imagination#ENGL7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>ENGL 205 Focus on: Passing and Performing Identity<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xavier.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Xavier University<\/a><br \/>\nCincinnati, Ohio<br \/>\nSpring 2020<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xavier.edu\/english-department\/engl-205-literature-the-moral-imagination#ENGL7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.xavier.edu\/_assets\/images\/logo.svg\" alt=\"Xavier University\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Section 25 Online MCFARLANE HARRIS<br \/>\nSection 26 Online MCFARLANE HARRIS<br \/>\nCRN 13054 and 11004<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>EOAs part of the Core Curriculum&#8217;s Ethics \/ Religion and Society Requirement, Literature and the Moral Imagination is required for all undergraduate students. In broad terms, ENGL 205: Literature and the Moral Imagination focuses on personal and social ethical issues in literature. Individual sections feature specific topics.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In this course, we will read fiction and graphic 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 \u201cblack\u201d persons light-skinned enough to appear \u201cwhite\u201d cross the color line to live as white people. Along the way, we will read a smattering of historical sources and cultural theory on the social construction of race, gender, sexuality, socioeconomic class, religion, etc.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xavier.edu\/english-department\/engl-205-literature-the-moral-imagination#ENGL7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this course, we will read fiction and graphic novels that investigate the phenomenon of racial passing in the United States, whereby \u201cblack\u201d persons light-skinned enough to appear \u201cwhite\u201d 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":[26829],"class_list":["post-59169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courses","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-xavier-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59169","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=59169"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59172,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59169\/revisions\/59172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}