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  |  
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| 1 |   **NO LECTURE OR SEMINAR - ALL 30 CATS OPTION MODULES BEGIN IN WEEK 2**  |  
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| 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 CentreLink opens in a new window*  |  
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| 10 |   The Empire Strikes Back: Commonwealth Migration  |  
         Commonwealth Migration  |  
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         Christmas Vacation 
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| 11 |   The 1958 Nottingham and Notting Hill Racist Riots  |  
         Relations with the British Labour Movement  |  
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| 12 |   A Package Deal? Immigration Controls and Race Relations Acts  |  
         Legislating for ‘Good Race Relations’  |  
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| 13 |   ‘Rivers of Blood’: Enoch Powell and British Identity in the 1960s  |  
         ‘Enoch is Right’? How Representative were Powell’s Views?  |  
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| 14 |   The National Front and Radical Right  |  
         *Essay Workshop*  |  
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| 15 |   Anti-Racism, Asian Youth Movements and British Black Power  |  
         Anti-Racism, Asian Youth Movements and British Black Power  |  
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| 16 | Reading week (no lecture or seminar) |  
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| 17 |   Uprisings or ‘Sheer Criminality’? The 1980s ‘Riots’  |  
         ‘Riots on the Television’: Media Representations of Racial Disturbances  |  
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| 18 |   Stephen Lawrence and Institutionalised Racism  |  
         The Macpherson Report  |  
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| 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?  |  
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         Easter Vacation 
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| 21 |   ‘Black Lives Matter everywhere’: Transnational Resistance  |  
         'The UK Is Not Innocent'  |  
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| 22 |   Concluding Session: ‘Britishness’ after Brexit?  |  
         Revision Session  |  
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