SO482      Half Unit
Topics in Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies

This information is for the 2014/15 session.

Teacher responsible

Dr Rozlyn Redd S218

Availability

This course is available on the MSc in Culture and Society, MSc in Human Rights, MSc in International Migration and Public Policy, MSc in Political Sociology and MSc in Sociology. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

Course content

The course offers students a broad exposure to issues in the theory of race, racism and ethnicity as well as an opportunity to consider a range of contemporary instances in which the social and political problems arising from these factors of division have been manifested. It will offer a preliminary genealogy of race thinking connecting historical and theoretical work with new scholarly debates over multi-culture, diversity, genomics, postcolonialism, and human rights.

Teaching

10 hours of lectures and 10 hours of seminars in the LT.

Formative coursework

Students have the option of writing a 3,000 word paper in preparation for the assessed essay.

Indicative reading

Appiah, Anthony (1996) Color conscious: the political morality of race, Princeton, N.J, Princeton University press; Ballhatchet, Kenneth (1980) Sex, Race and Class under the Raj, Weidenfeld and Nicolson; Barber, Benjamin R (c2003) Fear's empire: war, terrorism, and democracy, New York, W.W. Norton & Co; Bauman, Zygmunt (2004) Wasted lives: modernity and its outcasts, Cambridge, Polity; Buck-Morss, Susan (2003) Thinking past terror: Islamism and critical theory on the left, London, Verso; Butler, Judith P (2004) Precarious life: the powers of mourning and violence London, Verso; Cabral, Amilcar (2000) Return To The Source, Monthly Review; Cole, David (2003) Enemy aliens: immigrants' rights and American freedoms in the war on terrorism, New York, New Press; Devji, Faisal (2005) Landscapes of the Jihad: militancy, morality, modernity, Crises in world politics. London, Hurst & Co; Eze, Emmanuel Chukwudi (2001) Achieving our humanity: the idea of the postracial future, London, Routledge; Fanon, Frantz (1967) Toward The African Revolution, Grove; Fredrickson, George M (2002) Racism: a short history, Princeton, N.J, Princeton University Press; Jones, Greta (1980) Social Darwinism and English Thought, Harvester; Hacking, Ian (2002) Historical ontology, Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press; Hannaford, Ivan (1996) Race: the history of an idea in the West, Washington, D.C. Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Haraway, Donna (1997) Modest¿Witness@Second¿Millennium, FemaleMan¿Meets¿OncoMouse: feminism and technoscience, New York, Routledge; Hulme, Peter, and Jordanova, L. J (1990) The Enlightenment and its shadows, London, Routledge; Kuhl, Stefan (1994) The Nazi connection: eugenics, American racism and German national socialism, New York, Oxford University Press (N. Y.); Lorimer, Doug (1978) Colour, Class and The Victorians, Leicester University Press; Mamdani, Mahmood (2004) Good Muslim, bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the roots of terror, 1st ed New York, Pantheon Books; Poliakov, Léon (1974) The Aryan myth: a history of racist and nationalist ideas in Europe, London, Chatto and Windus; Schiebinger, Londa (1994) Nature's body: sexual politics and the making of modern science, London, Pandora; Tapper, Melbourne (1999) In the blood: sickle cell anemia and the politics of race, Critical histories. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press; Traverso, Enzo (2003) The origins of Nazi violence; translated by Janet Lloyd, New York, New Press.

Assessment

Essay (100%, 5000 words) in the ST.

Attendance at all seminars and submission of all set coursework is required.

Two hard copies of the assessed essay with submission sheets on each, to be handed in to the Administration Office, S200, no later than 16:30 on the second Friday of Summer Term. An additional copy to be uploaded to Moodle no later than 18:00 on the same day.

Key facts

Department: Sociology

Total students 2013/14: Unavailable

Average class size 2013/14: Unavailable

Controlled access 2013/14: No

Lecture capture used 2013/14: No

Value: Half Unit

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