Culture, race and ethnicity Anastasia Christou (A.Christou@sussex.ac.uk)A.Christou@sussex.ac.uk...
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- Culture, race and ethnicity Anastasia Christou
(A.Christou@sussex.ac.uk)A.Christou@sussex.ac.uk Spring &
Summer Terms 2012
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- 2012 Summer Term Office Hours Wednesdays 12.00-14.00 Arts C
243
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- Culture Race & Ethnicity
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- In 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.
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- Course at a glance The course will progress through the Spring
and Summer Terms, week by week, in the following structure:
Theorising race Critical theories of identities Critical white
studies Contemporary white identities Intersectional approaches to
race: gender, sexuality and class Colonial cultures and the
racialisation of whiteness Postcolonial perspectives Theorising
race and ethnicity: contemporary paradigms and perspectives
Migration and diaspora in cosmopolitan and multicultural cities
Mock Examination and feedback Everyday racisms Black British
diaspora politics Constructing Britishness & Muslim identities
in Britain The 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)
Assessment Contributory assessment : Unseen Examination 2 hours /
100%