HIS4225: Race: The History of a Powerful Idea
Pensum/læringskrav Spring 2020
Books
Mary Lynn Rampolla, A Pocket Guide to Writing in History (9th edition Boston et al.: Bedford BKS St Martin's, 2015).
Ali Rattansi, Racism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: OUP, 2007).
Compendium (available at Akademika - please bring your student ID with you):
Ta-Nehesi Coates, Between The World and Me (New York: Spiegel and Grau, 2015), pp. 5-13.
Elizabeth Higginbotham and Margaret L. Andersen, `Introduction,` in Margaret L. Anderson and Elizabeth Higginbotham (eds.), Race and Ethnicity in Society: The Changing Landscape (Belmont, 2015), pp. 1-4.
Les Back and John Solomos, `Introduction,` in Les Back and John Solomos (eds.), Theories of Race and Racism: A Reader (new edition London et al.: Routledge, 2009), pp. 1-30.
Jo-Anne Lee and John Sutton Lutz, `Introduction: Toward a Critical Literacy of Racisms, Anti-Racisms, and Racializations,´ in Jo-Anne Lee and John Sutton Lutz (eds.), Situating "race" and Racisms in Time, Space, and Theory: Critical Essays for Activists and Scholars (Montréal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005), pp. 3-29.
Jean E. Feerick, Strangers in Blood: Relocating Race in the Renaissance (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010), pp. 3-24.
Geraldine Heng, The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages (Cambridge: CUP, 2018), pp. 15-54.
Benjamin Isaac, The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004), pp. 1-51.
Anne Mcclintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest (New York: Routledge, 1995), pp. 1-17.
Laura Pulido, `Racism and the Anthropocene,` in Gregg Mitman, Marco Armiero, and Robert S Emmett (eds.), Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018), pp. 116-128.
John P. Jackson and Nadine M. Weidman (eds.), Race, Racism, and Science: Social Impact and Interaction (New Brunswick et al.: Rutgers University Press, 2006), pp. XI-XV and pp. 29-59.
Stefan Kühl, For the Betterment of the Race: The Rise and Fall of the International Movement for Eugenics and Racial Hygiene (London: Palgrave MacMillan 2013), pp. 1-9.
Mark Roseman, `Racial Discourse, Nazi Violence, and the Limits of the Racial State Model,´ in Devin O. Pendas, Mark Roseman and Richard F. Wetzell (eds.), Beyond the Racial State: Rethinking Nazi Germany (Cambridge: CUP, 2017), pp. 31-57.
Juliette Bridgette Milner-Thornton, The Long Shadow of the British Empire: The Ongoing Legacies of Race and Class in Sambia (London and New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2012), pp. 1-22.
Neil MacMaster, Colonial Migrants and Racism: Algerians in France 1900-1962 (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1997), pp. 1-21.
Rotem Kowner and Walter Demel (eds.), Race and Racism in Modern East Asia: Western and Eastern Constructions (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 1-37.
Debito Arudou, Embedded Racism, Japan's Visible Minorities and Racial Discrimination Lanham et al.: Lexington Books, 2015), pp. XI-XXVI and pp. 3-14.
Ellen D. Wu, The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model (Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press, 2016), pp. 1-9.
Edward E. Telles, Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014), pp. 1-23.
Manuela Caiani and Donatella della Porta, `Racism: Old and New Forms?,` in Manuela Caiani, Donatella della Porta and Claudius Wageman (eds.), Mobilizing on Extreme Right: Germany, Italy and United States (Oxford: University Press Scholarship online, 2012), pp. 148-167.
Michel Wieviorka, `Racism, the radical right, and ideology in contemporary France: Continuum or innovation,` in Angelica Fenner and Weitz Eric D. (eds.), Fascism and Neofascism: Critical Writings on the Radical Right in Europe (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), pp. 219–228.
Hans-Georg Betz, `Xenophobia, identity politics and exclusionary populism in Western Europe,` in Roger Griffin and Matthew Feldman (eds.), Fascism: Critical Concepts in Political Science. Vol V: Post-war Fascisms (London and New-York: Routledge, 2004), pp. 51-68.
Sindre Bangstad, Anders Breivik and the Rise of Islamophobia (London: Zed Books, 2014), Preface.
Mathew Carr, Fortress Europe: Inside the War Against Immigration (Revised and Updated 2015 edition), pp. 1-7.
Articles – accessible through the UiO network:
Jemima Pierre, `Structure, project, process: anthropology, colonialism, and race in Africa,` Journal of Anthropological Sciences96 (2018), pp. 213-219. http://www.isita-org.com/jass/Contents/2018vol96/Pierre/30640717.pdf
Patrick Bernhard, ´The great divide? Notions of racism in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany: new answers to an old problem,´ Journal of Modern Italian Studies24,1 (2019), pp. 97-114. https://ezproxy.uio.no/login?url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1354571X.2019.1550701
Ramón Grosfoguel, Introduction: “Cultural Racism” and Colonial Caribbean Migrants in Core Zones of the Capitalist World-Economy, Review22,4 (1999), pp. 409-434. https://www-jstor-org.ezproxy.uio.no/stable/40241468?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
Robin DiAngelo, `"New" Racism,` Counterpoints 398 (2012), issue: What does it mean to be white? Developing White Racial Literacy, pp. 105-132. https://www-jstor-org.ezproxy.uio.no/stable/42981488?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
Ursula Moffitt, Linda P. Juang and Moin Syed, `“We don’t do that in Germany!” A critical race theory examination of Turkish heritage young adults’ school experiences,´ Ethnicities 2018, pp. 1–28. Online first 2018, https://doi.org/10.1177/1468796818788596.
A. Öblom and J. Antfolk, `Ethnic and gender discrimination in the private rental housing market in Finland: A field experiment,´ PLoS ONE12,8 (2017), pp. 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0183344.
Mike Noon, `Pointless Diversity Training: Unconscious Bias, New Racism and Agency,`Work, Employment and Society, pp. 198-209. Online first September 1, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017017719841
Evelyn Hammond, `Straw Men and their Followers: The Return of Biological Race,` http://raceandgenomics.ssrc.org/Hammonds/