Critical Mixed Race Studies
Minor
About this program
The Critical Mixed Race Studies (CMRS) minor is a multidisciplinary program that provides undergraduate students with academic approaches to the histories, experiences, and cultures of mixed heritage, mixed race, and transnational adoptee individuals, families, and communities. CMRS courses address mono-racialization within the structure of racial hierarchies; historical and contemporary constructions of mixed race within legal, scientific, and cultural spheres nationally and transnationally; the mutability of race and the porosity of racial boundaries in order to critique processes of racialization and racialized social stratification through colonialism and imperialism (e.g. mestizaje, mestiƈagem, métissage, mischling, blood quantum, etc.); and the determined refusal of mono-racialization by multiple mixed heritage, mixed race, and transnational adoptee individuals, families, and communities. The CMRS curriculum takes into account the critical role of transnational globalization processes in creating shared oppressions and coalitional resistance for mixed heritage, mixed race, and transnational adoptee people.
Program Curriculum and Requirements
Program Learning Outcomes
- Provide students with theoretical tools to study mixed race as a politically produced and contested process (history of race, racialization, and especially monoracialization or the construction of singular and separate racialized categories; histories of particular mixed race/transracial adoptee populations).
- Present students with a variety of theoretical perspectives and research areas that inform Critical Mixed Race Studies, including:
Queer ethnic studies
Diasporic and Transnational studies
Sexuality studies
Critical whiteness studies
Intersectionality studies
Critical Race Theory - Provide students with opportunities for social engagement and community involvement from a perspective that respects communities’ self-determination.