Syllabus
Week 1, 12 January: Bushra Mahzabeen: 鈥業ntroduction鈥� - SLIDES
Required Reading:
Gilroy, Paul. "Race ends hereLink opens in a new window." Ethnic and racial studies 21.5 (1998): 838-847.
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. "The North Atlantic UniversalsLink opens in a new window." Modern World-System in the Longue Dur茅e. Routledge, 2015. 229-237.
Week 2, 19 January: Stephen Shapiro (online): 鈥楤ritish Cultural Studies: Moral Panics and the Race-Class Entanglement鈥� - SLIDES
Required Reading:
Hall, Stuart. 鈥楻ace and 鈥淢oral Panics鈥� in Postwar Britain鈥�Link opens in a new window (1978) in Selected Writings on Race and Difference (Duke UP, 2021).
Hall,Stuart. 鈥楪ramsci鈥檚 Relevance for the Study of Race and Ethnicity' Link opens in a new window(1986) in Selected Writings on Race and Difference (Duke UP, 2021).
Week 3, 26 January: Michael Niblett: 鈥楻acial Liberalism, Plantation Thinking, Freedom Thinking鈥� - SLIDESLink opens in a new window
Required Reading:
Bosma, Ulbe and Kris Manjapra, "Metaphorical Overtures of Freedom and the Plantation Complex.Link opens in a new window" Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics 3.1 (2022): 191-214.
Manjapra, Kris. "Plantation dispossessions: The global travel of agricultural racial capitalismLink opens in a new window." American capitalism: New histories. Columbia University Press, 2018. 361-388.
Jeminsin, N. K. "The Effluent Engine" in How Long 'til Black Future Month and available
Week 4, 2 February: Abida Younas: 鈥楥ivilization in Transit: Rethinking the Human in Mohsin Hamid鈥檚 Exit West鈥� - SLIDES
Required Reading:
Mohsin Hamid, Exit West (2017)
Joseph-Arthur Gobineau, (1853) 鈥� selected excerpts
Achille Mbembe, 鈥淭he Idea of a Borderless World,鈥� in (2019)
Week 5, 9 February: Natalya Din-Kariuki: 鈥楶remodern Race鈥� - SLIDES
Required Reading
Selections from the following texts, all provided in Ania Loomba and Jonathan Burton eds., (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) which is available as an e-book through 糖心TV library:
Bodin, Jean. Method for the Easy Comprehension of History (1566) [pages 93-98 in Loomba and Burton],
Huarte, Juan. Examen de ingenious. The examination of mens wits (1594) [pages 133-135 in Loomba and Burton]
Abbot George. A brief description of the whole worlde (1599) [pages 145-150 in Loomba and Burton]
Burton, Robert The anatomy of melancholy (1621) [pages 201-204 in Loomba and Burton].
Week 6, 16 February: Reading week
Week 7, 23 February: Emily McGiffin: 鈥楿ninhabiting the West: Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Erasure in Canada鈥� - SlidesLink opens in a new window
Required reading:
Abel, Jordan, Injun, Talonbooks
Glen Coulthard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. 鈥�Grounded normativity / place-based solidarity,Link opens in a new window鈥� American Quarterly 2016 Vol. 68 Issue 2 Pages 249-255
Recommended reading:
Harris, Cole. How Did Colonialism Dispossess? Comments from an Edge of Empire. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 2004 Vol. 94 Issue 1 Pages 165-182
Dowling, Sarah. 鈥楶roperty, priority, place: Rethinking the poetics of appropriation鈥�, Contemporary Literature 2019 Vol. 60 Issue 1 Pages 98-125
Week 8, 2 March: Paulo de Medeiros: 鈥楪hosts, 鈥楻ace鈥� and the Body: Reading Toni Morrison and Ta-Nehisi Coates鈥� Slides
Required reading:
Morrison, Toni. , Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2017.
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. . Melbourne: Text Publishing Company, 2016:
Recommended reading:
Morrison, Toni. 鈥�The Slavebody and the Blackbody鈥�. Mouth Full of Blood. London: Chatto & Windus, 2019, pp. 74-78.
Morrison, Toni. 鈥�Racism and Fascism鈥�. Mouth Full of Blood. London: Chatto & Windus, 2019, pp. 14-16.
Week 9, 9 March: Caitlin Vandertop: 鈥樷�淎 World of Statues鈥�: Un/writing the Colonial City鈥� slidesLink opens in a new window
Required Reading:
Rao, Rahul, 'Fallism And The Endtimes Of Apartheid' and 'The Libidinal Lives of Statues' from (2025).
Recommended Reading:
Hicks, Dan. Every Monument Will Fall (Penguin, 2025)
Carlson, Bronwyn and Terri Farrelly, Monumental Disruptions (Aboriginal Studies Press, 2023).
Week 10, 16 March: Bushra Mahzabeen: 鈥淲ho Belongs Here?: Race and Migration in the UK鈥�. SlidesLink opens in a new window
Required Reading:
Shukla, Nikesh. , Unbound Publishing, 2016.
Recommended Reading:
Erel, Umut, Karim Murji & Zaki Nahaboo (2016) 鈥楿nderstanding the Contemporary Race-Migration Nexus鈥濃��Link opens in a new window Ethnic and Racial Studies, 39:8, 1339-1360, DOI:
10.1080/01419870.2016.1161808
Achiume, E. Tendayi. "Racial borders."Link opens in a new window Geo. LJ 110 (2021): 445.