Dr Suki Ali S216

This course is compulsory on the MSc in Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies. 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.

This new course is a whole unit that functions as the intellectual core of our proposed MSc programme in Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial-Studies. It will offer a preliminary genealogy of race thinking which connects the concerns of anthropology and imperial government with new scholarly debates over multi-culture, diversity, genomics, human rights and the morality and legality of reviving colonial power. The course is sociological in focus but is enriched by the introduction of scholarly discussions from neighbouring disciplines. We regard this multi-disciplinary character as a strength and an asset the helps to define the uniqueness of our approach. The course offers students a broad exposure to theory and history 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. We start by addressing the history and character of the colonial and imperial expansion with which modern theories of race and ethnicity were intertwined. The first block introduces material drawn from various disciplines that is aimed at interpreting the social, political, governmental, cultural and economic characteristics of the colonial "contact zones" which were so important in making racial categories and keeping them alive. The development of racialised conceptions of humanity, progress, civilisation, national identity, cultural difference and geo-politics are tracked through the rise and fall of European empires in the second and third blocks. Block three takes on the scholarly agenda set by the anti-colonial theorists and intellectuals who led the movements against colonial rule as its initial point of departure. The final block engages contemporary approaches to diaspora, interculture and biocolonialism before concluding with a sequence addressed to the failure of human rights initiatives to sufficiently engage the issues of racial hierarchy and racism. The course will be taught through a weekly pattern of linked lectures and seminars.

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

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

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Essay (50%, 5000 words) in the LT.
Essay (50%, 5000 words) in the ST.

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