I’ve tried to use TikTok. It is full-on the hardest thing ever to get right, so I am not sure how many videos I will actually end up producing! However, as a conversation started for Week 1 of The Racial State, I have produced a TiTok on the question of…
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I was kindly invited by the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University to give a talk on postcolonial and decolonial thought for its Key Thinkers & Concepts series. I have posted in the slides and notes here. 1. I wish to acknowledgement the Darug people, their elders past and…
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TikTok might seem a million kilometres away from the world of social theory. But in this lecture, I use this example as a way to address the question, what is the relationship between social structure and culture? Download the Hand-Out References and Further Reading Back, Les, ed. 2012. Cultural Sociology: An Introduction.…
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So my time teaching at The New School has come to a close. It has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my career. This post is to thank some of the people who have made it so special and to recall some of the moments we shared on the two courses I taught, Race and Resistance (Eugene Lang College) and Race Critical and Decolonize Sociology (New School for Social Research).
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This is a provisional syllabus for my undergraduate course at The New School, Spring 2017.
Overview of substantive topics
Part I: Roots
⊗ Situating race
⊗ What is race?
⊗ Race and experience
⊗ Race and state
⊗ Race and Europeanness
⊗ Race, settler colonialism, and Indigenous resistance
⊗ Slavery
⊗ Whiteness
⊗ Race, gender and sexuality
Part II: Continuities
⊗ Antiblackness
⊗ Race, criminalisation and incarceration
⊗ The return of antisemitism?
⊗ Islamophobia, securitisation and ‘the war on terror’
⊗ Borders and migrations
Part III: Urgencies
⊗ Are we postrace yet?
⊗ Re-emerging fascisms
⊗ Race, digital technologies and social media.
The exhibition of a selection of student posters from my unit, The racial State (Autumn semester 2013) is currently on at the Margot Hardy Gallery, Bankstown Campus, Building 23, University of Western Sydney.
Comments closedAn interesting aid for teaching the problems of racelesness, post-racialism and colour-blindness to students. I will be using this in my first lecture for undergraduates who will doubtless be asking whether racism isn’t a thing of the past with the election of Obama. Although this is clearly a bigger issue…
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