School Of Humanities And Communication ArtsNew Ethnicities, Old RacismsWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 100273.3
Discipline: STUDIES IN HUMAN SOCIETY NOT ELSEWHERE CLASSIFIED
Student Contribution Band: 1
Level: 2
Credit Points: 10
Unit Enrolment Restrictions
Successful completion of 60 credit points at Level 1.
About this Unit
In 2013, this unit replaced by 101990 - The Racial State. The notion of 'New Ethnicities', introduced first by Stuart Hall in the 1980s in the context of the ascendancy of the New Right in Britain stressed, among other things, the importance of social and cultural identities, including ethnic and racial identities, generated by the process of globalisation, and the convergence of trans-national and trans-racial loyalties. Based on this notion, this unit critically examines the essentialist definitions of 'ethnicity', 'race' and 'nation', across many areas of cultural policy and practice. It draws theoretical perspectives from many schools of social thought including modernism, Marxism and postmodernism. Empirical examples are drawn from both the western and non-western world.
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