Constructed Identities: History of Race, Ethnicities and Mixed-Race Peoples

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Examination and analysis of the history of mixed-race and multi-ethnic identities and categories in what becomes the United States with comparisons to other American nations. First Nations, Hispanic, African-American, and Asian-American peoples from pre-contact through present day, especially the policing of identities and categories and the mediation of "authentic" identity in a raced and gendered historical context.