Mixed in America: Race, Religion, and Memoir (RELI 280, AFAN 282, or AMST 242) |
Mixed in America: Race, Religion, and Memoir (RELI 280, AFAN 282, or AMST 242)
Wesleyan University
Spring 2012
Elizabeth McAlister, Associate Professor of Religion
This course examines the history of “mixed-race” and “interfaith” identities in America. Using the genre of the memoir as a focusing lens, we will look at the various ways that Americans of mixed heritage have found a place, crafted an identity, and made meaning out of being considered “mixed.” How has being multiracial or bi-religious changed in the course of history in the United States? What has occasioned these changes, and what patterns can we observe? We will explore questions of racial construction; religious boundary-making; rites of passage, gender, sexuality and marriage; and some literary and media representations of mixed-heritage people.
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