Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
English language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The course explores race, racism and antiracism mainly from a sociological perspective but with an opening to multidisciplinary approaches (history, anthropology, political science, law, social psychology)
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The aim of the course is to provide the students with a theoretical basis as well as with a global picture of the classical and contemporary literature in the field of race, racism and antiracism.
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to critically discuss how race and racism operate today and how antiracist movements organize to fight racism
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
A passive and active knowledge of written and spoken English is indispensable.
THIS IS NOT AN ENGLISH CLASS BUT ALL THE COURSE (INCLUDING THE EXAMS, ORAL PRESENTATIONS, DISCUSSIONS AND WRITTEN PAPERS), IS IN ENGLISH
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The course could use 3 pedagogical tools:
- Lectures by the teacher and guest speakers
- Seminars based on the reading and discussion of texts as well as on oral presentations made by students
-Personal or collective short written papers
Weekly readings will be mandatory.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Further information:
Face-to-face lecture sessions
Attendance is mandatory. Unjustified absence will be sanctioned: 1 point out of 20 per unattended session.
Depending on the number of students enrolled, the course structure and the number of face-to-face sessions may be subject to change. Below 5 students, individual tutoring methods may be adopted at the teacher's discretion.
Course materials and recommended or required readings
Further information:
Readings and other instructional tool will be posted on MyULg.
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam ( open-ended questions )
- Remote
written exam ( open-ended questions )
Continuous assessment
Further information:
Additional information regarding the evaluation:
First session:participation in class and oral presentations (20%) and a written examination (80%)
Second session: a written examination
Subject to change depending on the number of students taking the course
Work placement(s)
N.A.
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
The detailed timetable will be communicated before the first class my email and on My ULg
Contacts
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Marco Martiniello, M.Martiniello@uliege.be
Association of one or more MOOCs
Items online
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
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 Orde
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)
en, 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)