2016/17 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

SLSP3055 Critical Mixed Race Studies - Global Perspectives

20 creditsClass Size: 60

Module manager: Shirley Anne Tate
Email: s.a.tate@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2016/17

This module is approved as a discovery module

Module summary

This module aims to develop theoretical approaches to an emerging societal change agent globally - 'racial mixing'. It goes from seeing mixing in a variety of global contexts as problematic to seeing how it is in those societies that it is presented as containing the possibility for 'post-race' / racial democracy/ tolerant multiculturism futures and national projects which are being sought as panaceas in a context of racial, ethnic and cultural diversity and/or conflict.

Objectives

This module aims to provide students with:
a) An opportunity to look at 'mixed race' globally critically in terms of scientific racism (the hybrid), societal denigration (the one drop rule and the tragic mulata), and societal salvation ( the cosmic race)
b) An overview of how mixed race is nuanced, constructed and appropriated politically in a chosen range of contexts globally (the UK, USA, Caribbean, Brazil, Canada, Australian and New Zealand, Southern Africa, Mexico)
c) The tools to critically analyse the continuation of racism within societies which see mixing as the possibility for 'post-race' futures and uneasy convivialities

Learning outcomes
At the end of this module students will be able to:
a) produce an essay of 5,000 words based on a critical analysis of the 'mixed race' problematic within a national context
b) critically analyse 'race', 'mixed race' and racism globally
c) draw out the similarities and discontinuities of 'mixed race' globally based on an analytics of 'race'

Syllabus

Race, raciology and racism
'Mixed race'- from colonial hybrid to census category
The Caribbean- Trinidad and Tobago (dougla), Jamaica (browning) , Cuba (mulata) and the Dominican Republic (Taino/European and the denial of African ancestry)
Brazil - becoming African within mixing
The USA - from tragic mulatta to fractions are for math not people
Mixing and the nation in Australia and New Zealand
Mexico's cosmic race and African exclusion from the national story
Canadian mixedness
'Mixed race' bodies: representation, aesthetics, consumption
'Mixed race' as emblematic of nation 'post-race' futurity- the UK from 'half caste' to global national sporting icons.
Mixing- towards global 'post-race' futures?

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Drop-in Session	2	0.25	0.50
presentation	1	0.50	0.50
Lecture	11	1.00	11.00
Seminar	11	1.00	11.00
Independent online learning hours			44.00
Private study hours			133.00
Total Contact hours			23.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			200.00

Private study

Students will be provided with weekly digitzed readings (3) through the vle (44 hours). They will work in groups to present the readings to the seminar group along with any critical questions that they have in relation to the reading seminar preparation (22 hours). As part of the assessment (5,000 word essay) they will be expected to expand the bibliography provided in the course handbook to show evidence of independent enquiry (11 hours).

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Student progress will be monitored through attendance, participation in the seminars, the group presentations and final assessment.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay	5,000 words	100.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 15/04/2015

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