Week 3: The Mulatto”: (1892) Iola Leroy “Tragic M 10/11 ASSIGNMENT #1 due; Iola Leroy (intro-ch. 13) W 10/13 Iola Leroy (ch. 14-20) Week 4: Race & the Law M 10/18 Iola Leroy (ch. 21-end); Function of the Mulatto,” “The ‘Fair’ Kimberly Wilson W 10/20 the Law Would Rule between Us,” Emily Tassel; “Only “Who’s Black, Who’s White, and Who Cares,” Luther Wright; Notes, “Identity Part One” Adrienne Davis; and Whiteness,” “Mexican-Americans George Martinez Week 5: Race, Identity, Agency: Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912) M 10/25 Fabrication of Race,” and the Courts,” “The “Naturalization Matthew Jacobson W 10/27 Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (intro-ch. 4); “Legalizing Cultural Anxieties,” Timothy McCarthy Week 6: Theories of Racial Passing M 11/1 ASSIGNMENT #2 due; Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (ch. 5-end); for) Black Passing for White,” Samira Kawash “(Passing W 11/3 Politics of Passing,” Elaine Ginsberg; for White, “The “Passing Passing for Black,” Adrian Piper Week 7: Performance, Sexuality, Race: Passing (1929) M 11/8 Passing (intro-part 2) W 11/10 Passing (part 3-end); Veils of the Law,” Corinne Blackmer “The Week 8: (Pseudo)scientific racism: Black No More (1931) M 11/15 Black No More (intro-ch. 8) W 11/17 Black No More (ch. 9-end); Open Sesame of a Pork-Colored “The Skin,” Jason Haslam
Week 3: The “Tragic Mulatto”: Iola Leroy (1892) M 10/11 ASSIGNMENT #1 due; Iola Leroy (intro-ch. 13) W 10/13 Iola Leroy (ch. 14-20) Week 4: Race & the Law M 10/18 Iola Leroy (ch. 21-end); “The Function of the ‘Fair’ Mulatto,” Kimberly Wilson W 10/20 “Only the Law Would Rule between Us,” Emily Tassel; “Who’s Black, Who’s White, and Who Cares,” Luther Wright; “Identity Notes, Part One” Adrienne Davis; “Mexican-Americans and Whiteness,” George Martinez Week 5: Race, Identity, Agency: Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912) M 10/25 “The Fabrication of Race,” “Naturalization and the Courts,” Matthew Jacobson W 10/27 Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (intro-ch. 4); “Legalizing Cultural Anxieties,” Timothy McCarthy Week 6: Theories of Racial Passing M 11/1 ASSIGNMENT #2 due; Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (ch. 5-end); “(Passing for) Black Passing for White,” Samira Kawash W 11/3 “The Politics of Passing,” Elaine Ginsberg; “Passing for White, Passing for Black,” Adrian Piper Week 7: Performance, Sexuality, Race: Passing (1929) M 11/8 Passing (intro-part 2) W 11/10 Passing (part 3-end); “The Veils of the Law,” Corinne Blackmer Week 8: (Pseudo)scientific racism: Black No More (1931) M 11/15 Black No More (intro-ch. 8) W 11/17 Black No More (ch. 9-end); “The Open Sesame of a Pork-Colored Skin,” Jason Haslam
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