Module ANT3089 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
ANT3089: Cultures of Race, Ethnicity and Racism
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Module Aims
In this module we examine ways in which anthropologists, sociologists and other scholars from the interdisciplinary field of critical race studies, have explored and analysed how racial and ethnic identities are lived and experienced. The module focuses on ethnographic studies to examine the articulation of minority and majority racial and ethnic identities cross-culturally and in different socio-historical contexts. Central to this inquiry is an examination of the theories and concepts that anthropologists and sociologists have deployed to think about the formation of ethnic and racial identities and racism. Our emphasis upon the reproduction of various forms of racism will be complemented by an exploration of the social conditions in which racism is challenged. The module also considers the possibility of a world beyond racial thought and categorisation.
| On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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| Module-Specific Skills | 1. critically engage with anthropological and sociological approaches to the study of race, ethnicity and racism 2. apply appropriate theories and concepts competently to facilitate an analysis of racism and identities 3. situate the formation of racial and ethnic identities within socio-historical context |
| Discipline-Specific Skills | 4. gain an appreciation of the role of theory in ethnography 5. develop an appreciation of the synergies and distinctions between anthropological approaches and other social scientific approaches and an understanding and engagement with complex arguments in these fields. 6. acquire an understanding of the ethical and theoretical issues involved in the representation of ethnic and racial differences |
| Personal and Key Skills | 7. demonstrate transferable skills in formulating, researching and addressing focussed essay questions 8. prepare focussed and comprehensive oral presentations 9. work independently and in collaboration with others 10. develop a critical awareness of cross-cultural understanding and anti-racist values, values which increasingly feature in many professional settings |
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).
