Term

Week

Lecture Topic

Seminar Topic

Introduction: Concepts and Historical Perspectives

Studying Race, Ethnicity, and Migration

Nineteenth-Century Irish Migration

Debates around 'Irish Integration'

Jewish Migrants from Eastern Europe

Jewish East London: The ‘Promised Land’?

‘Undesirable Immigrants’: The Aliens Act 1905

Immigration Controls and Registration

Reading Week (no lecture or seminar)

1919: Riots, Racism, and Resistance in Imperial Britain

The Road to Seaport Violence

National Unity? British Identity in the ‘People’s War’

Britain and the Second World War

Postwar Migration and the Empire Windrush

Postwar Migration

*This seminar will take place in the Modern Records Centre*

The Empire Strikes Back: Commonwealth Migration

Commonwealth Migration

Christmas Vacation

The 1958 Nottingham and Notting Hill Racist Riots

Relations with the British Labour Movement

A Package Deal? Immigration Controls
and Race Relations Acts

Legislating for ‘Good Race Relations’

‘Rivers of Blood’: Enoch Powell and
British Identity in the 1960s

‘Enoch is Right’?
How Representative were Powell’s Views?

The National Front and Radical Right

*Essay Workshop*

Anti-Racism, Asian Youth Movements
and British Black Power

Anti-Racism, Asian Youth Movements
and British Black Power

Reading Week (no lecture or seminar)

Uprisings or ‘Sheer Criminality’? The 1980s ‘Riots’

‘Riots on the Television’:
Media Representations of Racial Disturbances

Stephen Lawrence and Institutionalised Racism

The Macpherson Report

Islamophobia

Islamophobic Violence

‘Coming over Here, Taking our Jobs…’:
The Media, Race and Immigration

How has Press Coverage of
Race and Immigration Changed?

Easter Vacation

‘Black Lives Matter everywhere’: Transnational Resistance

'The UK Is Not Innocent'

Concluding Session: ‘Britishness’ after Brexit?

Revision Session