Race and Racism: A Beginners Guide for Literary Studies - Einzelansicht

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Dear students, all courses will be taught as online courses with asynchronous access until further notice. Once you have signed on in PULS and have been admitted in PULS, your instructor will email you via PULS to let you know when and how to access the online material (moodle, etc.). Testatsleistungen (course requirements) may be subject to change. Students who cannot (yet) access PULS: Please email your instructor directly. It is possible that classes can be switched to classroom teaching (Präsenzlehre) at some point during the semester. If this happens, your instructor will let you know and classes will take place at the times originally scheduled.

In this course, we’ll work to develop racial literacy and question discourses of race in and beyond Europe. We will consider how race is constructed, and used in the production of racism. We’ll read short literary texts to investigate their racializing practices, as well as an array of critical interventions. Well aim to better understand processes of colonial racialization, as well as questions of whiteness and the development of narratives of racelessness. In particular, well also consider how these issues relate to contemporary notions of Europeanness.