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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


Week

Lecture Topic

Seminar Topic
1

**NO LECTURE OR SEMINAR - ALL 30 CATS OPTION MODULES BEGIN IN WEEK 2**

2

Introduction: Concepts and Historical Perspectives

Studying Race, Ethnicity, and Migration

3

Nineteenth-Century Irish Migration

Debates around 'Irish Integration'

4

Jewish Migrants from Eastern Europe

Jewish East London: The ‘Promised Land’?

5

‘Undesirable Immigrants’: The Aliens Act 1905

Immigration Controls and Registration

6

Reading week (no lecture or seminar)

7

1919: Riots, Racism, and Resistance in Imperial Britain

The Road to Seaport Violence

8

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

Britain and the Second World War

9

Postwar Migration and the Empire Windrush

Postwar Migration

*This seminar will take place in the Modern Records CentreLink opens in a new window*

10

The Empire Strikes Back: Commonwealth Migration

Commonwealth Migration

Christmas Vacation
11

The 1958 Nottingham and Notting Hill Racist Riots

Relations with the British Labour Movement

12

A Package Deal? Immigration Controls and Race Relations Acts

Legislating for ‘Good Race Relations’

13

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

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

14

The National Front and Radical Right

*Essay Workshop*

15

Anti-Racism, Asian Youth Movements and British Black Power

Anti-Racism, Asian Youth Movements and British Black Power

16 Reading week (no lecture or seminar)
17

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

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

18

Stephen Lawrence and Institutionalised Racism

The Macpherson Report

19

Islamophobia

Islamophobic Violence
20

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

How has Press Coverage of Race and Immigration Changed?

Easter Vacation
21

‘Black Lives Matter everywhere’: Transnational Resistance

'The UK Is Not Innocent'

22

Concluding Session: ‘Britishness’ after Brexit?

Revision Session








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