Sociology of Racism and Antiracism

Course Presentation and Calendar
Course Presentation and Calendar

List of Readings
List of Readings

Session 1. `Do the Right Thing¿ by Spike Lee
Brody, R. (2019, June 28), The Enduring Urgency of Spike Lee¿s ¿Do the Right Thing¿ at Thirty, The New Yorker

Keele, S.(2020, June 19) The Radical Empathy of Do the Right Thing, The American Interest,

Session 10. Whiteness
Ruth Frankenberg (2001). The mirage of an unmarked Whiteness. In: Rasmussen, B. B., Klinenberg, E., Nexica, I. J., & Wray, M. (Eds.). The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness. Duke University Press, pp. 72-96. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv11sn1gq

 

Charles W. Mills (2022). Global White Ignorance. In Gross, M., & McGoey, L. (Eds.). Routledge handbook of ignorance studies. DOI: 10.4324/9781003100607-6

Session 11.Anti-Asians Racism
Wang, S. et. al. (2021). " `I'm more afraid of racism than of the virus!¿: racism awareness and resistance among Chinese migrants and their descendants in France during the Covid-19 pandemic". European Societies, vol. 23, no. S1, S721¿S742.

Kim, C. J. (1999). "The Racial Triangulation of Asian Americans". Politics & Society, vol. 27, no. 1, 105-138.



 

Session 2. Introduction and overview: The dimensions of Racism
 

Wieviorka, M. (1994), Racism in Europe: unity and diversity. Dans Rattansi, A. et Westwood, S (Eds), Racism, Modernity and Identity : On the Western Front (pp.259-274). Wiley

Session 3. Racist thought: theories and ideologies
 

Guillaumin, C. (1995). The Specific characteristics of racist ideology. Racism, Sexism, Power and Ideology(pp.22-60). Routledge

https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203422243

Miles, R. (1989), Conceptual Inflation. Racism (Repr, pp.41-68); Routledge https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203633663

Session 4. Racist Prejudice
 

Quillian, L. (April 17,2006), New Approaches to Understanding Racial Prejudice and Discrimination, Annual Review of Sociology (Vol.32, 2006, pp.229-328).

https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.soc.32.061604.123132

Rinehart, J.W. (Augustus 16, 2010), The Meaning of Stereotypes, Theory Into Practice (Vol.2, N°3, pp.136-143). Taylor & Francis, Ltd

https://doi.org/10.1080/00405846309541852

Session 5. Hate Speech and Racist violence
Solomos, J. et Schuster L (2002), Hate Speech, Violence and Contemporary Racisms. Dans Berghah Books, Europe¿s New Racism? Causes, Manifestations and Solutions (pp.43-55). The Evens Foundation

Ray, L., Smith, D. & Wastell, L. (2004, May), Shame, rage and racist violence, British Journal of Criminology (Vol. 44, Issue 3, pp.350-368), Centre for Crime and Justice Studies https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azh022

Session 6. Institutional, structural, and systemic Racism
 

Bonilla-Silva, E. (2021, August), What Makes Systemic Racism Systemic?, Sociological Inquiry (Vol. 91, N°3, pp.513-533), Alpha Kappa Delta : The international Sociology Honor Society. https://doi.org/10.1111/soin.12420

Williams, J. (1985, July 3). Redefining institutional racism, Ethnic and Racial Studies (Vol.8, N°3, pp.323-348), Routledge  https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.1985.9993490

Session 7. Racist Political Order
Goldberg, D.Th. (2001). The Racial State. (pp.98-137).Wiley - Blackwell Publishers.

Marx, A. W. (1996). Race-Making and the Nation-State. World Politics (Vol.48, N°2, pp.180-208). Cambridge University Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25053960

Session 8. The Dynamics of Antiracist struggles (1)
Ben, J., Kelly, D. et Paradies, Y. (2020). Contemporary anti-racism. A review of effective practice. Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Racisms (1[SUP]st[/SUP] Edition, pp.205-215).Routledge https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351047326

Bhattacharyya, G., Virdee, S. & Winter, A. (2020). Revisiting histories of anti-racist thought and activism. Identities (27:1, 1-19). Taylor & Francis Online https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2019.1647686

Fella, S. & Ruzza, C. (2013). Introduction : Anti-Racist Movements in the European Union: Between National Specificity and Europeanisation. Dans S. Fella et al. (eds.), Anti-Racist Movements in the EU. Between Europeanisation and National Trajectories (1[SUP]st[/SUP] Edition, pp.1-31). Palgave Macmillan

http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137284662_1

 

Session 9.The Dynamics of Antiracist Struggles (2)
 

Tate, S. A., & Gutiérrez Rodríguez, E. (2022). Critical Race and Gender: Dialogues Between Decoloniality and Intersectionality. In The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Race and Gender (pp. 1¿19). Springer International Publishing AG. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83947-5_1

 

Grégoire, N., & Ntambwe, M. (2019). Afro Women¿s Activism in Belgium: Questioning Diversity and Solidarity. In Emejulu, A., & Sobande, F. (Eds.). To Exist is to Resist. Black Feminism in Europe, Pluto press, pp. 63-75.

 

BONUS: Hill Collins, P. (2000). Black feminist thought: knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment (2nd edition.). Routledge.https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203900055 (available online)