Timetable
The module timetable can be found below:
All lecture slides / recordings, seminar questions, and reading lists, are available on the Moodle pageLink opens in a new window
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ALL LECTURE SLIDES/RECORDINGS, SEMINAR QUESTIONS,
AND READING LISTS ARE AVAILABLE ON THE MODULE'S MOODLE PAGELink opens in a new window
Term |
Week |
Lecture Topic |
Seminar Topic |
Autumn Term | 1 | **NO LECTURE OR SEMINAR - ALL 30 CATS OPTIONAL MODULES BEGIN IN WEEK 2* | |
2 | Introduction: Concepts and Historical Perspectives |
Studying Race, Ethnicity, and Migration |
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3 | Nineteenth-Century Irish Migration |
Debates around 'Irish Integration' |
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4 | Jewish Migrants from Eastern Europe |
Jewish East London: The ‘Promised Land’? |
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5 | ‘Undesirable Immigrants’: The Aliens Act 1905 |
Immigration Controls and Registration |
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6 | Reading Week (no lecture or seminar) |
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7 | 1919: Riots, Racism, and Resistance in Imperial Britain |
The Road to Seaport Violence |
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8 | National Unity? British Identity in the ‘People’s War’ |
Britain and the Second World War |
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9 | Postwar Migration and the Empire Windrush |
Postwar Migration *This seminar will take place in the Modern Records Centre* |
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10 | The Empire Strikes Back: Commonwealth Migration |
Commonwealth Migration |
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Christmas Vacation |
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Spring Term | 1 | The 1958 Nottingham and Notting Hill Racist Riots |
Relations with the British Labour Movement |
2 | A Package Deal? Immigration Controls |
Legislating for ‘Good Race Relations’ |
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3 | ‘Rivers of Blood’: Enoch Powell and |
‘Enoch is Right’? |
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4 | The National Front and Radical Right |
*Essay Workshop* |
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5 | Anti-Racism, Asian Youth Movements |
Anti-Racism, Asian Youth Movements |
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6 | Reading Week (no lecture or seminar) |
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7 | Uprisings or ‘Sheer Criminality’? The 1980s ‘Riots’ |
‘Riots on the Television’: |
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8 | Stephen Lawrence and Institutionalised Racism |
The Macpherson Report |
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9 | Islamophobia |
Islamophobic Violence |
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10 | ‘Coming over Here, Taking our Jobs…’: |
How has Press Coverage of |
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Easter Vacation |
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Summer Term | 1 | ‘Black Lives Matter everywhere’: Transnational Resistance |
'The UK Is Not Innocent' |
2 | Concluding Session: ‘Britishness’ after Brexit? |
Revision Session |