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Module aims

Outline syllabus

This is an indicative module outline only to give an indication of the sort of topics that may be covered. Actual sessions held may differ.

1. Race, Resistance, and Modernity
2. Haiti: The First Modern Revolution
3. Citizenship Against Empire
4. Concerning Violence: Decolonization and the New World Order
5. The Third World Project: Peace, Bread and Justice
6. Reading Week
7. Beyond the Third World: The Global South from Above and Below
8. Black Power
9. Post Race?: Trump, Brexit and the Wages of Whiteness
10. Module Summary and Assessment

Learning outcomes

By the end of the module, students should be able to:

• Compare, contrast and critically assess specific cases of resistance in global articulation
• Critically assess movements for decolonisation and Black power
• Demonstrate understanding of the ways in which race has been used as a mode of resistance to the inequalities generated by the modern world

Indicative reading list

Bhabha, Homi 1994. "Race', Time and the Revision of Modernity' The Location of Culture. Routledge
Fanon, Frantz 1967 [1952]. Black Skin, White Masks. Grove Press
Glissant, E. Caribbean Discourses
Sartre, Jean-Paul 1968 [1961]. 'Preface' in Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth. Grove Press
Blackburn, R. 1988. The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery: 1776-1848. London: Verso
Blackburn, R. 2011. The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights. London: Verso
Davis, D.B., 2007. Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. Oxford: Oxford
University Press
Dubois, L. 2005. Avengers of The New World: The Story of The Haitian Revolution. Harvard University
Press.
James, CLR. 1963. The Black Jacobins. Random House.
Shilliam, R. 2012. "Civilization and the Poetics of Slavery", Thesis Eleven: Critical Theory and Historical
Sociology, 108 (1), 2012 pp.97-116.
Bhambra, Gurminder K. 2014. 'A Sociological Dilemma: Race, Segregation, and US Sociology,' Current
Sociology 62 (4):
Bhambra, Gurminder K and Victoria Margree 2010. 'Tocqueville, Beaumont and the Silences in Histories of
the United States: An Interdisciplinary Endeavour across Literature and Sociology,' Journal of
Historical Sociology 24 (1): 116-31
DuBois, W. E. B. 1909. 'Evolution of the Race Problem'
http://www.webdubois.oredbEvol0fRaceProb.html accessed 28th October 2013
DuBois, W. E. B. 1935. Black Reconstruction: An Essay toward a History of the Part which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880. Philadelphia: Albert Saifer
Publisher
Du Bois, WEB 1903. The Souls of Black Folk. Various imprints
Memmi, Albert 1965 [1957]. The Colonizer and the Colonized. Beacon
Fanon, Frantz 1968 [1961]. The Wretched of the Earth. Grove Press
Malcolm X
Davis, Angela Women, Race and Class
Davis, Angela Blues Legacies and Black Feminism
Shilliam, Robbie 2006. 'What about Marcus Garvey? Race and the Transformation of Sovereignty Debate,'
Review of International Studies 32 (3): 379-400
Bhagavan, M. 2013: India and the Quest for One World. London: Palgrave
Lee, C. 2010. Making A World After Empire: The Bandung Moment and its Political After-lives. Athens: Ohio
Mishra, P. 2012. From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against The West and The Remaking of Asia.
London: Penguin
Prashad, V. 2007. The Darker Nations: A People's History of The Third World. London: Verso
Prashad, V. 2013. The Poor Nations: A Possible History of the Global South. London: Verso
Mazower, M. 2012. Governing the World: The History of An Idea. London: Allen Lane
Allen, Danielle 2005 Talking to Strangers
Bloom, Joshua and Waldo Martin Jr 2013. Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black
Panther Party. University of California Press.
Carmichael, Stokely and Charles V. Hamilton 1969. [1967]. Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in
America. Middlesex: Penguin Books
Collins, Patricia Hill 2007. 'Pushing the Boundaries or Business as Usual? Race, Class, and Gender Studies
and Sociological Inquiry' in Craig Calhoun (ed.) Sociology in America: A History, pp572-604.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Davis, Angela
Shakur, Assata 1987. An Autobiography
Singh, Nikhil 2004. Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy. HUP
West, Cornell 2014. Black Prophetic Fire. Beacon Books.
Shilliam, Robbie 2015. The Black Pacific. Bloomsbury
Slate, Nico 2011 Coloured Cosmopolitanism
Slate, N (eds.) 2012, Black Power beyond Borders: The Global Dimensions of the Black Power Movement.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan

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Subject specific skills

1. Understanding of ability to use key theoretical concepts related to the study of race and imperialism.
2. Ability to design and sustain arguments using theoretical ideas from the module.
3. Appreciation of the complexity of relevant debates.

Transferable skills

1. Critical thinking
2. Communication of complex ideas - written and verbal
3. Working effectively with others
4. Information literacy/research skills
5. Time management and organisation