Migrants Encounter Migrants in the City: the Changing Context of
Home for Second-Generation Greek-American Return Migrants
Culture, race and ethnicity Anastasia
Christou([email protected])Spring & Summer Terms 2012
1Chris Langstroth PaintingsThe Encounter (2002)Chris Langstroth
is a Toronto-based artist who works primarily in
acrylicshttp://langstroth.com/chris/gallery.php
2012 Summer TermOffice Hours Wednesdays 12.00-14.00Arts C 243
2Culture Race& Ethnicity
3In this course, students will examine critical theories of
culture, race and ethnicity. Attention will focus on the ways in
which notions of culture, race and ethnicity are constructed and
negotiated in everyday social spaces, encounters and discourses. To
develop understanding of the complex processes through which this
occurs, the course will be thoroughly grounded with reference to
specific historical and contemporary examples. The sustained focus
on particular empirical examples is intended to encourage students
to see the terms culture, race and ethnicity as slippery,
ambiguous, and entangled concepts that are not related to some
essential or biological difference between groups of human beings
but, rather, are always socially constructed in specific places and
at specific times.
4Course at a glanceThe course will progress through the Spring
and Summer Terms, week by week, in the following
structure:Theorising race Critical theories of identities Critical
white studiesContemporary white identitiesIntersectional approaches
to race: gender, sexuality and classColonial cultures and the
racialisation of whiteness Postcolonial perspectivesTheorising race
and ethnicity: contemporary paradigms and perspectivesMigration and
diaspora in cosmopolitan and multicultural citiesMock Examination
and feedbackEveryday racismsBlack British diaspora
politicsConstructing Britishness & Muslim identities in
BritainThe spectacle of racialisation: media and performative
representations of race Course summary and revision workshops
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Teaching and learning modes
Lectures: Wks 1-10 Spring, 1-5 Summer (1 hour)Seminars: Wks 1-10
Spring, 1-5 Summer (1 hour)
AssessmentContributory assessment : Unseen Examination 2 hours /
100%
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