Module ANT2089 for 2016/7
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
ANT2089: Cultures of Race, Ethnicity and Racism
This module descriptor refers to the 2016/7 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Lectures may explore the following:
-The social and historical construction of race, ethnicity and racism
- Racism and nationalism
- Black and white feminism
- Researching race, ethnicity and racism
- Mixed-race, post-race
- Race, genealogy and genetics
- Far right politics
- Anti-racism
- Islamophobia
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | 128 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
| Category | Hours of study time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching | 22 | Seminars |
| Guided independent study | 128 | Private study |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Back, L. (1996) New Ethnicities and Urban Culture: Racism and Multi
Culture in Young Lives (London: UCL Press).
- Banks, M. (1996) Ethnicity: Anthropological Constructions (London: Routledge)
- Frankenberg, Ruth (1993) White Women, Race Matters (London: Routledge).
- Gilroy, P. (1987) There Aint No Black in the Union Jack: Cultural Politics of Race and Nation (London: Hutchinson).
- Hall, C. and Rose, S. (eds) (2006) At Home with the Empire: Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
- Haritgan, J. (1999) Racial Situations: Class Predicaments of Whiteness in Detroit (Princeton: Princeton University
Press).
- Hill, J. (2008) The Everyday Language of White Racism (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell).
- Said, E. W. (1978) Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient (London: Penguin Press).
- Wade, P., (2002), Race, Nature and Culture: An Anthropological Perspective (London: Pluto Press).
- Werbner, P. and Modood, T. (eds) (1997) Debating Cultural Hybridity: Multi-cultural Identities and the Politics of
Anti-racism (London: Zed books).
