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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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 |






