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Critical Mixed Race Studies- Lecturer
- Prof. Dr. Heike Paul
- Details
- Hauptseminar
2 cred.h, ECTS studies, Sprache Englisch
Time and place: Thu 10:15 - 11:45, C 301
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- Das Hauptseminar gehört in den folgenden Studiengängen jeweils zu folgenden Modulen:
MA North American Studies - Culture and Literature: Modul 4,5,7 oder 8 MA The Americas/Las Américas: Modul 4 MA Literaturstudien – intermedial und interkulturell: Module 4,5,7 und 8 BA English and American Studies: Hauptmodul A Literature oder Culture. (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II) Für BA-Studierende ist an diesen Kurs auch eine "Independent Study Group" angeschlossen. Lehramt Englisch an Gymnasien (neu): Hauptmodul L-GYM Literature. (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul Literature) Alte Studiengänge (Studienbeginn vor WS 07/08): Hauptstudium. (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung)
- Contents
- Much of what is conventionally labeled African American cultural production has recently been (re)considered as a specific ‘mixed-race’ tradition in American culture. Due to the hegemonic ideology of the “one-drop rule,” US mixed-race subjects have in the past often been considered unequivocally ‘black,’ and racial mixing has been prominently thematized in the figure of the “tragic mulatto” (a bi-racial character doomed to fail), for instance in the novel of passing. Currently, more attention is paid to the specificities of mixed-race discourses in culture and literature, and the constructivist approaches of critical race studies and African American studies have been re-centered on mixed-race studies.
This seminar provides, first, an introduction to the field of critical mixed-race studies discussing multi-ethnicity, hybridity, and adjacent concepts. Second, we will discuss representations that address mixed-race discourses in various media and across time. Third, we will develop a comparative perspective that moves beyond the black-white dichotomy as a prominent pattern in American racial discourse in order to gain a more nuanced picture. Please purchase and read:
Nella Larsen, Passing
Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father
- Additional information
- Registration is required for this lecture.
Die Registration via: CASSY Erlangen
- Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
- Startsemester WS 2013/2014:
- Amerikanistik, Modul 8 C
- Amerikanistik, Modul 9 C
- Department: Chair of American Studies
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