ANT 200 - Cultural Politics of Hybridity

4 credits

This course examines anthropology’s contribution to the taxonomy and representations of “race” and “culture” and its role in prescribing and proscribing the idea of interracial intimacy. Over the course of the semester, we will examine how the topic of mixing and miscegenation was invented, elaborated, and obsessed over by anthropologists, philosophers, judges, policymakers, film directors, and people raced as “mixed.” Primary attention will be given to ideas about mixing in the United States as a location from which to compare perspectives of social difference, “purity,” and “hybridity” in other countries.

Prerequisite: ANT 104, or SOC 111.
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Gibel Mevorach