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Apr 03, 2026
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ES 244 - Mixed Race Identities in the US
Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-4; Diversity
Examination of mixed race peoples-their legal and social status, U.S. Census designations, and identities– from the one-drop rule to President Obama and beyond.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-4 - Lower Division Social and Behavioral Sciences, Overlay - Diversity
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- explain the unique legal and social status of mixed-race people;
- analyze how structural forces like capitalism, colonialism, census categories, and laws shape mixed-race identity in relation to race, gender, class, sexuality, etc.;
- 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
- apply key concepts from class to the contemporary world.
GE-4. Lower-division Social and Behavioral Sciences Electives Learning Outcomes
- Explain how social, political, and economic institutions and/or principles intersect with each other.
- Describe how people produce, resist, and/or transform social, political, and economic institutions/principles.
- Investigate contemporary and/or historical events/issues from a social science perspective.
Diversity Overlay Learning Outcomes
- Describe the histories, experiences or views of one or more cultural groups.
- Analyze the overlap or intersection of social identities of oneself and/or other cultural groups (e.g., culture, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, and/or age).
- Examine the impact of their own identity on their experiences with and/or views of other cultural groups.
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