Race, Ethnicity and Identity 3 rd Year Advanced Topic

Race, Ethnicity and Identity Course Summary This course focuses on theories of race, ethnicity and identity. It applies diverse theoretical approaches to race, ethnicity and identity to historical and contemporary ethnographic contexts. As well as examining the way in which racial and ethnic identities have been constructed across time and space, the course interrogates these constructions with specific reference to: the development of anthropology; slavery and colonialism; scientific racism; postcolonial political regimes; postcolonial feminism; conflict and genocide; identity-based mass violence; diaspora, transnationalism and the Black Atlantic; contemporary understandings of race and racism in its myriad forms; and multicultural lives and hybridity.

Week 1 - 'Race'/'Ethnicity' in the development of anthropology Week 2 - Slavery, Empire, Decolonisation and Racialised Subjectivities Week 3 - Gender, Sexuality and Racialised Bodies Week 4 – Indigenous peoples and ‘authenticity’ Week 5 – The Project of Multiculturalism Week 6 – Reading Week Week 7 - Multiracial Lives and Hybridity Week 8 - Race, Class and Culture Week 9 - Race and Racism Week 10 - Identity-based Mass Violence Week 11 – One to one tutorials Week 12 – Essay workshop Race, Ethnicity and Identity

Tutors Raminder Kaur Kahlon Pamela Kea Nigel Eltringham Race, Ethnicity and Identity