Undergraduate Course: Race And Ethnicity (SCIL10071)
Course Outline
| School | School of Social and Political Science |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | How do categories of race and ethnicity serve as pillars for the structural organization at the individual, private life and the public, institutional level? The course explores the importance of race and ethnicity categories as references to power dynamics and social ordering throughout historical remarks and validation of truths. The critical analysis explored in this course provides an in-depth understanding of differing theoretical explanations of race and ethnicity and critically compares actual manifestations in different social settings. The course will also investigate the relationships between race, ethnicity, identity and wider social processes, such as changing ideas about and experiences of racism, ethnicity, gender, migration, social mobility, immigration, religion and social justice. The course is multi-disciplinary in perspective and will draw on work from sociological, political, historical, economic and anthropological perspectives about and conceptualising race and ethnicity. |
| Course description |
Race, ethnicity and racism will be studied as organising devices in the social structures, institutions, and everyday interactions that formulate forms of dominance. The justification for colonial legacy, formation of modernity, scientific racism, and power unbalances will be studied as discourses that assumed ideological prominence and justified hierarchies present in societies, institutions and social relations.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | Visiting students should have at least 3 Sociology or closely related courses at grade B or above (or be predicted to obtain this). We will only consider University/College level courses. |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Understand major concepts, issues and debates concerned with race and ethnicity.
- Critically engage with differing theoretical perspectives regarding race and ethnicity
- Conceptualise race and ethnicity as an intersectional constituent of modernity
- Understand manifestations of race and ethnicity in different contemporary social settings
- Have the skills to analyse the ways in which 'race' and ethnicity interact with other sociological processes and intersectionally with other social categories/stratifications, and read and deploy critical approaches concerning the study of race across varied anti-racist epistemological approaches.
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Reading List
Da Silva, D.F. (2001) Towards a critique of the socio-logos of justice: The analysis of raciality and the production of universality. Social identities. 7 (3), 421¿454. doi:10.1080/13504630120087253.
G.T. Hull, P.B. Scott, & B. Smith (eds.) (1982) All the women are White, all the Blacks are men, but some of us are brave¿: Black women¿s studies / edited by Gloria T. Hull, Patricia Bell Scott, and Barbara Smith. New York, Feminist Press at the City University of New York.
Hall, S., Gilroy, P. & Gilmore, R.W. (2021) Selected Writings on Race and Difference. Durham, Duke University Press.
Lorde, A. (2018). The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House. United Kingdom: Penguin Books Limited.
Maldonado-Torres, N. (2016). Outline of ten theses on coloniality and decoloniality.
McKittrick, K. (2021). Dear Science and Other Stories. United Kingdom: Duke University Press. (Selections)
Meer, N. (2014) Key Concepts in Race and Ethnicity. London, SAGE Publications. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
o Critical engagement in Race and Ethnicity topics addressing to micro and macro levels of social interactions
o Critical awareness concerning social injustice, structural and systemic aspects of society creating and/or affected by categories of race and ethnicity
o Accountability for language, key concepts and principles used to describe, theorise and understand race and ethnicity
o Ethics of caring in building an anti-racist space for teaching-learning, working collectively with peers. |
| Keywords | race,ethnicity,racism,coloniality,colonialism,decolonial,power,modernity,human |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Katucha Bento
Tel: (01316)51 3867
Email: kbento@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr Ewen Miller
Tel: (0131 6)50 3925
Email: Ewen.Miller@ed.ac.uk |
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