Not available in 2020/21
SO482 Half Unit
Topics in Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies
This information is for the 2020/21 session.
Teacher responsible
Dr Suki Ali STC S307
Availability
This course is available on the MSc in Culture and Society, MSc in Human Rights, MSc in Human Rights and Politics, MSc in Inequalities and Social Science, MSc in International Migration and Public Policy and MSc in Political 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 theorisations and debates about 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 ideas have been manifested. It will offer a preliminary genealogy of ‘modern’ race thinking connecting historical and theoretical work with new scholarly debates over a number of contemporary issues. NB Topics change yearly but have engaged the politics of migration and multiculture, nationalism, the politics of terror, state violence, bio/necro/politics, genomics, health inequalities, representation.
Teaching
This course is delivered through a combination of lectures/online material and seminars totalling a minimum of 20 hours in LT. The course may run as an extended interactive seminar where student numbers and teaching arrangements permit.
Reading Weeks: Students on this course will have a reading week in LT Week 6, in line with departmental policy.
Formative coursework
Students have the option of writing a 1500 word paper in preparation for the assessed essay.
Indicative reading
Appiah, Anthony (1996) Color conscious: the political morality of race, Princeton University Press; Ballhatchet, Kenneth (1980) Sex, Race and Class under the Raj, Weidenfeld and Nicolson; Butler, Judith P (2004) Precarious life: the powers of mourning and violence, Verso; Cabral, Amilcar (2000) Return To The Source, Monthly Review; Chiang, H. ed. (2018) Histories of Sex in China, Washington University Press; Eze, Emanuel Chukwudi (2001) Achieving our humanity: the idea of the postracial future, Routledge; Fanon, Frantz (1967) Toward The African Revolution, Grove; Fredrickson, George M (2002) Racism: a short history, Princeton University Press; Jones, Greta (1980) Social Darwinism and English Thought, Harvester; Hannaford, Ivan (1996) Race: the history of an idea in the West, Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Haraway, Donna (1997) Modest¿Witness@Second¿Millennium, FemaleMan¿Meets¿OncoMouse: feminism and technoscience Routledge; Kuhl, Stefan (1994) The Nazi connection: eugenics, American racism and German national socialism, Oxford University Press; Mamdani, Mahmood (2004) Good Muslim, bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the roots of terror, Pantheon Books; Mbembe, A (2019) Necropolitics, Duke University Press; Morana, M et al (2008) Coloniality at Large: Latin America and the Postcolonial Debate, Duke University Press; Nelson, A (2016) The Social life of DNA. Omeje, K (ed) (2015) The Crisis of Postcoloniality in Africa,CODESIRA Schiebinger, Londa (1994) Nature's body: sexual politics and the making of modern science, London, Pandora; Tapper, Melbourne (1999) In the blood: sickle cell anaemia and the politics of race. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press
Assessment
Essay (100%, 5000 words) in the ST.
An electronic copy of the assessed essay, to be uploaded to Moodle, no later than 4.00pm on the submission day.
Attendance at all seminars and submission of all set coursework is required.
Important information in response to COVID-19
Please note that during 2020/21 academic year some variation to teaching and learning activities may be required to respond to changes in public health advice and/or to account for the situation of students in attendance on campus and those studying online during the early part of the academic year. For assessment, this may involve changes to mode of delivery and/or the format or weighting of assessments. Changes will only be made if required and students will be notified about any changes to teaching or assessment plans at the earliest opportunity.
Key facts
Department: Sociology
Total students 2019/20: Unavailable
Average class size 2019/20: Unavailable
Controlled access 2019/20: No
Value: Half Unit
