Sociology

Requirements

1. SOCI 2029

   SOCI 2029

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2. SOCI 3237

   SOCI 3237

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3. SOCI 3351

   SOCI 3351

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4. SOCI 3104

   SOCI 3104

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5. SOCI 3041

   SOCI 3041

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6. SOCI 4012

   SOCI 4012

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7. SOCI 3671

   SOCI 3671

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8. SOCI 2765

   SOCI 2765

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9. IN 1596

   In 1596, Elizabeth Tudor wrote to lord mayors of major English cities that there were “of late divers blackamoores brought into this realm, of which kind of people there are already here to manie ... those kinde of people should be sente forth of the land.” A common myth about Great Britain is that it was a homogeneously white nation until Jamaicans and South Asians arrived in Britain after World War II. Another myth is that there were no slaves held in Britain. As the above quotation indicates, free Black people were already settled there in the 16th century; and they were already the object of scapegoating for increasing poverty in the land at that time. The 17th century brought African slaves to Britain and, by the 19th century, the great ports of London, Bristol, Cardiff, and Liverpool were populated by West Africans (free and unfree); Lascars (Muslim sailors from east of the Cape of Good Hope); and seamen from Shanghai and Guangzhou, who created the first European Chinatown in the London Docks. In this course, we will investigate the multiracial nature of Great Britain from the Tudor era to the late 20th century. We will consider temporal moves between free and unfree lives and the role of free Africans in the abolition movement. Articulations of race, class, gender, and sexuality will be central, particularly as they play out in family formations and economic activities, including the rise of labor unions. We will wrestle with the absence of people of color in discourses about the British past and with constructions of racist stereotypes, particularly in the 19th century, such as scientific racism and the trope of the Chinese opium den. Finally, we will engage with cultural explosions in music (reggae, ska, two-tone, raga, punk), film ( Bend It Like Beckham , My Beautiful Laundrette , Young Soul Rebels ), scholarly writing (Paul Gilroy, Stuart Hall, Hazel Carby, Catherine Hall), and creative writing (Lemn Sissay, Jackie Kay, Linton Kwesi Johnson)-to name but a few-created by second-, and third-, generation children of Commonwealth immigrants particularly as they articulate with antiracism movements. Our class materials will be multidisciplinary (anthropology, history, literature) and multimedia

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