Making Race (HIST2106, The University of Hong Kong)Course Description: For as long as race has been a concept for categorizing peoples around the world, states have grappled with the problem of race. This course examines the history of this “problem” in a global context. Why have racial relations and identities been such sensitive issues across so many historical time periods and places? Why have states been so invested in policing racial boundaries? How have individual people, couples, and families navigated the legal and societal challenges to interracial existence? We will examine these questions with a focus on four thematic topics: sex and intimacy, marriage, children, and citizenship and national belonging. Drawing on historical case studies from across the world, students will come to situate the history of race and racial hybridity in a new critical perspective as they reflect on both parallel and intersecting social constructions of race and ethnicity in the twentieth century.

Sample of students' work:
Malak (malakelbeshlawy.design)HakoYuHeiScarlett