FRIDAY
January 18, 2013

Inaugural Sawyer Seminar
THE EVOLUTION OF MIXED-RACE HISTORIOGRAPHY AND THEORY

Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: East Asian Seminar Room (110C), Doheny Memorial Library, USC

Please e-mail Kana Yoshida at cjrc@dornsife.usc.edu to register, and if you would like to receive advanced copies of presenter papers for this seminar (highly encouraged!).


SUMMARY:
How has the study of mixed race been historicized and theorized in Western academia? Has our understanding of mixed race changed in the 21st century, or is our public discourse still bound by past ideology, experience, and debate? Does theorizing mixed race bind or liberate us from the ideological pitfalls of racialist thinking?

CONFERENCE CONVENORS:
Duncan Williams, Brian C. Bernards, and Velina Hasu Houston, USC


PRESENTERS:

Ariela Gross, USC
John B. and Alice R. Sharp Professor of Law and History

Paul Spickard, UC Santa Barbara
Professor of History

Falguni Sheth, Hampshire College
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Political Theory


Presented by the Center for Japanese Religions and Culture’s “Critical Mixed-Race Studies: A Transpacific Approach” Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminars Series at the University of Southern California.