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2011/2 Provisional Module Catalogue - UNDER CONSTRUCTION & SUBJECT TO CHANGE
 Module Code: SOC3033 Module Title: CULTURES OF RACE AND RACISM
Module Provider: Sociology Short Name: SOC3033
Level: HE3 Module Co-ordinator: TYLER K Dr (Sociology)
Number of credits: 15 Number of ECTS credits: 7.5
 
Module Availability
Semester 1
Assessment Pattern

Unit(s) of Assessment

 
Weighting Towards Module Mark( %)

 

3500-4000 word essay

 

100%

 

Qualifying Condition(s) 

 

A weighted aggregate mark of 40% is required to pass the module.

 
Module Overview

This module will explore the formation of racial and ethnic identities within the context of cultures of racism in the West. The module will examine theoretical approaches to the study of racisms, the constitution of everyday cultures of racism and extreme racist politics associated with far right movements. The module will also consider the meaning and value of anti-racism and the possibility for post-racial identities. 

 
Prerequisites/Co-requisites
None
Module Aims

·         To provide an overview of the role and significance of racism in contemporary societies

 

·         To introduce students to sociological approaches to the study of racisms

 

  • To provide students with a critical awareness of the reproduction of racism within Western societies
Learning Outcomes

Students completing this module will:

 

  • Be familiar with and critically engage with sociological approaches to the study of race, ethnicity and racism

     

  • Understand the way in which race, ethnicity and racism interacts with other social divisions and inequalities

     

  • Be able to connect empirical studies with theoretical approaches to the study of racism

     

  • Develop a critical awareness of multicultural and anti-racist values

     
Module Content
  • Theorising everyday racism - racism as structure, process and ideology

     

  • Racism and inequalities

     

  • Whiteness studies

     

  • Race and politics - Europe and far right politics

     

  •  Anti-racism

     

  • Racism and place - the rural, the urban

     

  •  Researching race, ethnicity and racism

     

  • Post-racial identities - the ‘new’ genetic technologies

     

  • mixed-raced identities and trans-national adoption

     
Methods of Teaching/Learning

11 lectures and 11 seminars

 

Formative essay plan (0%)

 
Selected Texts/Journals

Ali, S. (2003) Mixed-race, Post-race, Berg

 

Back, L. and Solomos, J. (2009) Theories of Race and Racism: A Reader, Second Edition, Routledge.

 

Bulmer, M. and Solomos, J. (eds) (1999) Racism, Oxford University Press.

 

Frankenberg, R. (eds) (1997) Displacing Whiteness: Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism, Duke University Press.

 

Gilroy, P. (1987) There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack, Routledge.

 

Parker, D. and Song, M. (2001) Rethinking ‘Mixed Race’, Pluto Press.

 

Wade, P. (2009) Race, Ethnicity and Nation: Perspectives from Kinship and Genetics, pp. 33-51. Berghahn Books.

 

 

Key Journals

 

Ethnic and Migration Studies

 

Ethnic and Racial Studies

 

Ethnicities

 
Last Updated
April 2011