This course is available on the BSc in Language, Culture and Society and BSc in Sociology. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students. This course has a limited number of places (it is capped). Places are allocated on a first come first served basis.
This course is available on the BSc in Language, Culture and Society and BSc in Sociology. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students. This course has a limited number of places (it is capped). Places are allocated on a first come first served basis.
This course is delivered through a combination of lectures/seminars, online materials and classes totalling a minimum of 20 hours in MT. Reading Weeks: Students on this course will have a reading week in MT Week 6, in line with departmental policy.
One formative essay (2000 words) due in Week 7 of MT.
Cesaire, A. 1955. Discourse on Colonialism. Grove Press.Said, E., 1978. Orientalism: Western representations of the Orient. Pantheon.Steinmetz, G., 2013. Sociology and empire. Duke University Press.Fanon, F., 1963. The wretched of the earth. Grove Press.Mills, C.W., 2014. The racial contract. Cornell University Press.Davis, A.Y., 2011. Women, race, & class. Vintage.Mohanty, C.T., 1988. Under Western eyes: Feminist scholarship and colonial discourses. Feminist review, (30), 61-88.Sharpe, C., 2016. In the wake: On blackness and being. Duke University Press.Wekker, G., 2016. White innocence: Paradoxes of colonialism and race. Duke University Press.Collins, P.H., 2002. Black feminist thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment. Routledge.
Essay (80%, 3000 words) in the LT. Presentation (20%) in the MT. An electronic copy of the assessed essay, to be uploaded to Moodle, no later than 4.00pm on the submission day. Assessed essay due Thursday of Week 1 in LT. Attendance at all classes and submission of all set coursework is required.