AMST130 SC-Multiracial People and Relations in U.S. HistoryPosted in Barack Obama, Course Offerings, History, Law, Media Archive, Social Science, United States on 2010-09-03 17:45Z by Steven |
AMST130 SC-Multiracial People and Relations in U.S. History
Scripps College, Claremont, California
2013
Matthew Delmont, Assistant Professor of American Studies
This class will explore the conditions and consequences for crossing racial boundaries in the U.S. We will take a multidisciplinary approach, exploring historical, literary, and ethnographic writings along with several feature and documentary film treatments of the subject. We will examine: Relations among Native Americans, whites, and blacks in the colonial era and nineteenth century; the legal formation of race through miscegenation cases; the regulation and representation of multiracial themes in film; the concept of mestizaje; contemporary debates surrounding the Mixed-race/Multiracial movement; and the racial identity of the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama.