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Race matters
by alana lentin
This is a series of 8 lectures on race and racism in the UK. The focus is on racism as embedded in the public political culture of the UK, a state marked by its colonial history and present-day postcoloniality. Themes range from: the construction and status of race through various discourses and contexts of colonialism, immigration and multiculturalism, issues of identity, representation, power, equality and difference, the relationship between race and other social-political identifications, categories and divisions such as nationality, class, gender, ethnicity and religion, the relationship between race and the law, crime and civil unrest, the history of racial conflict and the development of anti-racist activism, policies and legislation, forms of cultural politics, expression and resistance and, finally, current issues and debates concerning the status of race in Britain.
Episodes
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Race, the Law, Crime and Civil Unrest
The perceived threat to Britain and corresponding moral panic about immigrants and the racial ‘other’ has often been constructed in terms of law and order, and particularly ‘black criminality’. In this Week we will focus on the relationship between ‘race, the law, crime and civil unrest. We will...
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Race, Citizenship & identity
This lecture looks at how national identity is constructed in response to the perceived threat of the racial ‘other. This week the focus will be on two aspects: Firstly, how do race and racism shape the way in which those racialized as other experience and identify themselves. In particular, in...
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Race & Immigration in the UK
Historically, in the British imagination, the concept of race had been tied to the colonial project and the racial ‘other’ located in the colonies. In 1945, as the Empire began to crumble and colonial immigration to Britain began on a mass scale the relationship with, and thus concept and...
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The Concept and Construction of Race
This episode focuses on the concept and construction of race, and the production of racial knowledge. We will examine race as a contingent historical, social, political, economic and cultural construction that has not only served as a mode of human differentiation, classification or…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
This is a series of 8 lectures on race and racism in the UK. The focus is on racism as embedded in the public political culture of the UK, a state marked by its colonial history and present-day postcoloniality. Themes range from: the construction and status of race through various discourses and contexts of colonialism, immigration and multiculturalism, issues of identity, representation, power, equality and difference, the relationship between race and other social-political identifications, categories and divisions such as nationality, class, gender, ethnicity and religion, the relationship between race and the law, crime and civil unrest, the history of racial conflict and the development of anti-racist activism, policies and legislation, forms of cultural politics, expression and resistance and, finally, current issues and debates concerning the status of race in Britain.
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alana lentin
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