During this Module we explored texts that challenged the black-white binary that shapes the American racial imaginary.
How are scholars and artists interrogating shifting definitions of blackness and whiteness over time? What do we make of the multivalent and conflicting language used to describe race, its ascription to particular groups and its regulation by the state? How might cross-racial performance and transnational comparisons of racial formations foster social, cultural and political connections between and within communities that can enable new ways of thinking about race and ethnicity?
Monday, March 2, 2015
Module 3- Disrupting the Black-White Binary
During this Module we explored texts that challenged the black-white binary that shapes the American racial imaginary.
How are scholars and artists interrogating shifting definitions of blackness and whiteness over time? What do we make of the multivalent and conflicting language used to describe race, its ascription to particular groups and its regulation by the state? How might cross-racial performance and transnational comparisons of racial formations foster social, cultural and political connections between and within communities that can enable new ways of thinking about race and ethnicity?
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