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ES 244 - Mixed Race Identities in the US

1. explain the unique legal and social status of mixed-race people;
2. analyze how structural forces like capitalism, colonialism, census categories, and laws shape mixed-race identity in relation to race, gender, class, sexuality, etc.;
3. evaluate the limitations and possibilities within Critical Mixed Race Studies methodologies in challenging not only dominant perceptions of mixed-race identities but also the structural roots of inequality; and
4. apply key concepts from class to the contemporary world.

1. Explain how social, political, and economic institutions and/or principles intersect with each other.
2. Describe how people produce, resist, and/or transform social, political, and economic institutions/principles.
3. Investigate contemporary and/or historical events/issues from a social science perspective.

1. describe the histories and/or experiences of one or more U. S. cultural groups and the resilience and agency of group members;
2. identify structures of oppression and the diverse efforts and strategies used by groups to combat the effects of oppressive structures;
3. analyze the intersection of the categories of race and gender as they affect cultural group members’ lived realities and/or as they are embodied in personal and collective identities;
4. recognize the way that multiple differences (including, for example, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, gender expression, color/phenotype, racial mixture, linguistic expression, and/or age) within cultural groups complicate individual and group identities.