Give Me Color: Performing Interraciality in Film and Literature

Through a reading of select critical theory, literary texts, and films, students will look critically at the ways in which race has been constructed and figured in U.S. culture post-1945, through the lens of interraciality. Decentering the dominant narrative of black-white interraciality, we will give equal attention to the role that Asian bodies play in complicating this binary. We will also investigate the potentiality of texts to challenge social norms or reclaim injurious identities. Authors include Jhumpa Lahiri, Celeste Ng, and Peter Ho Davies. Visual texts range from Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967) to "San Junipero" (2016)