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Module ANTI-RACISM 1

Module code: AN215
Credits: 5
Semester: 1
Department: ANTHROPOLOGY
International: Yes
Coordinator: Prof. Hana Cervinkova (ANTHROPOLOGY)
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This module will be dedicated to critical examination of race, racism and anti-racist responses in historical and contemporary contexts. We will learn how race as an inaccurate representation of human biological variation, has been employed as a basis of racist classification systems that have structured people’s experience in the world. We will learn about the role of racism in justifying the atrocities of colonialism and slavery, the European Holocaust and anti-Black, Anti-Irish, Anti-Roma, and Anti-Traveller prejudice and discrimination. We will study the legacy of slavery, police violence and incarceration in the United States and consider the role of collective memory in inspiring the ongoing critique of institutional and everyday racisms. Throughout the module, we will focus on the resistance against racism in different sites and historical moments, including anti-colonial and civil-rights movements. A special attention will be paid to the complexity of the Irish colonial and post-colonial experience. 100% CA assessment will be based on individual reflections and group projects, focused on developing students’ competencies to think through and engage in discussions on issues tied to racism and other forms of systemic discrimination. The goal is to provide students with knowledge-based capacities to confront racism in their everyday lives - personal, professional and civic - and across transnational fields of belonging in the interconnected world.

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