Greg Carter
Assistant Professor
Office: Holton 383
Phone: (414) 229-1158
e-mail: cartergt@uwm.edu
Curriculum Vitae: pdf
Degree(s):
Ph.D., American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 2007
Research Interests:
Mixed race identity and representation
Racial science
Popular culture
Teaching Areas:
Mixed-race identity and representation
Civil rights history
Popular culture
Courses Offered:
Hist 150: Multicultural America
Hist 200: The Civil Rights Movement in America
Hist 270: Mixed-Race Identity in American Culture
Hist 398: American Mixed Race
Hist 404: The Hip-Hop Generation
Hist 600: Race Relations in America
Hist 800: Racial Thinking in the United States
Hist 900: Race in the United States
Other Activities:
Coordinator, History Caucus, Critical Mixed Race Studies Association
Member, Minority Scholars’ Committee, American Studies Association
Coordinator, Mixed Race Studies Reading Group, UWM
Member, Program Committee, Critical Mixed Race Studies Association
Chair, University Awards and Recognition Committee, UWM
Recent Publications:
Carter, Gregory T. The United States of the United Races: The History of a Utopian Idea. New York, NY: New York University Press (Forthcoming, Fall 2012).
Carter, Gregory T. “By Casta, Color Wheel, and Computer Graphics: Visual Representations of Racially Mixed People.” In Race, Gender, and the Obama Phenomenon: Toward a More Perfect Union?, edited by G. Reginald Daniel and Hettie V. Williams. Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press (Forthcoming, Fall 2012).
Carter, Gregory T. “From Blaxploitation to Mixploitation: Mixed-Race, Male Leads and Changing Black Identities.” In Mixed Race Hollywood, edited by Mary C. Beltrán and Camilla Fojas. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2008.
Carter, Gregory T. “Key Moments: Census 2000.” In Encyclopedia of American Reform Movements, edited by Jack McKivigan and Heather Kaufman. New York, NY: Facts on File (Forthcoming).
Carter, Gregory T. “The Melting Pot, the Stomach, and the Cosmic Race: Utopian Visions of Racial Mixture from Zangwill, Toomer, and Vasconcelos.” Journal of American Ethnic History (Revise and Resubmit).
Carter, Gregory T. “Race and Citizenship.” In Oxford University Press Handbook on American Immigration and Ethnicity, edited by Ron Bayor. New York, NY: Oxford University Press (Revise and Resubmit).
Carter, Gregory T. Review of AfroAsian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics, Heike Raphael-Hernandez and Shannon Steen, eds. Journal of American Ethnic History, Summer 2007.
Carter, Gregory T. Review of White Enough to be American?: Race Mixing, Indigenous People, and the Boundaries of State and Nation, Lauren L. Basson. Journal of American Ethnic History, Fall 2009.
Carter, Gregory T. “‘A Shplit Ticket, Half Irish, Half Chinay’: Representations of Mixed-Race and Hybridity in Turn-of-the-Century Theater.” Ethnic Studies Review, Fall 2008.
Carter, Gregory T. “Teaching Race through Fiction and Memoir: Anatole Broyard’s Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir.” Journal of American Ethnic History, (Forthcoming, Fall 2012).
Recent Awards:
Graduate School Research Council Award, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2009.
Campus Reading Seminar Award, University of Wisconsin System Institute for Race and Ethnicity, 2008.
Faculty Diversity Research Award, University of Wisconsin System Institute for Race and Ethnicity, 2008.
Summer Undergraduate Research Assistantship, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2008.