CAROLINE A. STREETER Biography
Caroline A. Streeter is an Assistant Professor jointly appointed in the Department of English and the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies. She teaches interdisciplinary courses in literature, film, visual art and popular culture. Classes that she has taught at UCLA include “Los Angeles and Film Noir” (English 118), “American Detective Fiction” (English 117), “The African American Migration in Words and Images” (Af Am/English 104B), “The Black Public Intellectual and Popular Culture” (Af Am 6), and “What is the Blackness of Blackness?: Constructions of Race and Difference in African American Literature” (Af Am/English 179A). Professor Streeter received her B.A. in Feminist Studies from Stanford University and her Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies, with a designated emphasis in Women, Gender and Sexuality, from the University of California, Berkeley. Streeter’s forthcoming book, Tragic No More: The Transformation of the Mulatto/a in Post-Civil Rights Culture, examines the phenomenon of mixed-race in the latter half of the 20th century through artistic and popular representations of the so-called mulatto/a. Streeter argues that contemporary notions of interracial sexuality and mixed-race people are haunted by the historical taboo against miscegenation and the potent combination of fear and desire projected onto the mulatta/o, the symbol of the transgression of the boundary between whites and blacks. As such, the figure of mixed-race occupies a complex node of privilege and stigma in the American racial imaginary, an ambiguous position that illuminates the strong hold that racial dualism maintains in a reputedly multicultural United States. Professor Streeter has published articles in the journal Callaloo, and the anthologies The Multiracial Experience (1996) and New Faces in a Changing America (2003). Her most recent essay, “Faking the Funk? Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys and (Hybrid) Black Celebrity” appears in the anthology Black Cultural Traffic (University of Michigan Press, 2005). She has lectured widely at academic institutions such as California State University Los Angeles, California State University Northridge, Notre Dame University, Northwestern University and the University of Michigan. Professor Streeter has also given a series of lectures pertaining to African American art and culture during Black History Month at the Grace Museum of Abilene, Texas. Topics have included the folk artist Clementine Hunter as well as the African American quilting tradition, which provided the basis for entries that she contributed to the Encyclopedia of African American Folklore (Greenwood Press, 2006). Her most recent presentation at the Grace Museum focused on cultural retention and resistance as reflected in the tradition of African American women’s church hats.
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