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THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCES FACULTY OF ARTS

Sociology of ‘Race’ and Ethnicity SOCI30014 Subject Guide Semester Two, 2021

The website for this subject is available through the Canvas Learning Management System (LMS) at: https://le.unimelb.edu.au/newlms/info-for-students The Canvas LMS is an important source of information for this subject. Useful resources such as lecture recordings, all required readings and subject announcements will be available through the Canvas LMS website. It is your responsibility to regularly check in with the Canvas LMS for subject announcements and updates. You will require a university email account (username and password) to access the Canvas Learning Management System. You can activate your university email account at: https://accounts.unimelb.edu.au/manage

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Teaching Staff Subject Coordinator, Lecturer: Dr Liz Dean Dr Liz Dean has taught in the Sociology program for many years. Liz continues to explore sociological theory, continental philosophy, anti-colonial theories and practice, bodily practices and corporeal feminism, with a specific focus upon social inequalities.

Email: [email protected] Consultation hours: email for an appointment

Guest Lecturer: Associate Professor: Nikki Moodie (TBC) Dr Nikki Moodie is a Gomeroi woman, born in Gunnedah, NSW and raised in Toowoomba, Queensland. She is a Senior Lecturer in Indigenous Studies in Sociology in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. Nikki has been widely recognised in the sociology of education, receiving the 2017 Betty Watts Indigenous Researcher Award from the Australian Association for Research in Education, and 2018 Best Paper in the Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education. She is an Editor of the Critical Race & Whiteness Studies e-journal, and on the Editorial Board of Health Sociology Review.

W10 Dr Ryan Gustafsson Tutor: Pavit Bashir Tutor: Isabel Jackson Emails: See CANVAS Staff details for tutor emails and consultation details This subject received 4.5 from 5 overall, when taught in 2019 for the first time. Due to COVID-19 SES have not been distributed

Teaching Staff Availability Teaching staff are available during their notified consultation times, and emails will be responded to in a timely manner (usually within 48 hours) during normal business hours. Teaching staff cannot be expected to respond to student queries during weekends. Note also that although teaching staff will make every effort to assist students prepare for their assessment tasks, this is limited to general advice and assistance with students developing their own responses to the tasks as set. Assessment assistance does not, generally, include technical advice (for example, formatting and structure, referencing style, layout and presentation). For such advise is available from other university departments such as the University's library service or the Academic Skills Unit; and Writing Style pdf on CANVAS.

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Subject Overview / Subject Description This subject provides a sociological examination of the racialized underpinnings of Australian society. Focusing on how social forces such as colonisation, dispossession and the White Australia Policy have shaped understandings of racial difference, the subject will be concerned with the specific social consequences for Australia of such racialisation processes, which includes contemporary Australian expressions of racial inequalities and racism. The subject also considers the impacts of the interplay between Australia and the global shifts that shap e both the changing notions and experiences of ‘race’ and conceptualisations and experiences of ethnicity. A sociological investigation of what decolonising knowledge means will also be explored through introducing some First Nation’s Australian knowledge and critical engagement with social theory.

Objectives: Upon successful completion of this subject, students are expected to: ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪

Understand historical and social processes which underpin ideas of 'race'; Critically analyse the social, racialisation processes and inequalities; Demonstrate sociologically how understandings of ethnicities emerge and change overtime; Understand how multiculturalism relates to experiences of racism and ethnicity; Investigate what decolonising knowledge means and how this can be practised; Build an understanding of First Nation's Australians knowledge, and ways of thinking and living

General Skills • • • • •

Oral communication; Written communication; Collaborative learning; problem solving; team work; Interpretation and analysis; Critical thinking

Subject Structure Students are expected to attend 1 & 1/2 hour lectures and a 1 hour tutorial per week. The Subject’s timetable is as follows:

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Wednesday 10:00am to 11:30am Lectures are intended to be on campus and will be recorded (and when available appear in Lecture Capture) For now on line for probably Weeks 1 to 3: Arts West: North Wing 556 – If lockdown is occurring the lectures will be both recorded and ‘live’ NOTE: Tutorials begin in Week One

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Class Registration – Lectures/Tutorials/Seminars Students are required to Register into their lectures, tutorials and seminars before the commencement of the subject, by using MyTimetable. Further information about MyTimetable is available at: https://students.unimelb.edu.au/your-course/manageyour-course/class-timetable For any issues with the Timetable, or Class Registration, students should use the Timetable Assistance Form. Students will need to submit a Timetable Assistance Form, to request any changes

Readings All required readings for this subject are listed in this subject guide. Online links to all required readings and some recommended readings are available in ‘Readings online’, CANVAS. Required readings represent the minimum expected for you to participate effectively in class. Further recommended readings are listed in this guide and on CANVAS. You are encouraged to augment your understanding of the topics discussed by drawing on this list. In addition, it is expected that you will develop your own learning and knowledge through wider reading and research, particularly with regard to completion of assessment items.

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Semester 2, 2020 Lecture, Tutorial Program and Readings Week One: Defining Race aka everything you thought you knew is a lie Guest Lecture: A/Prof Nikki Moodie The subject begins by defining what race is, and is not, and charts the invention of race as a tool for imperial expansion. Key ideas: race, Social Darwinism, social constructionism, W.E.B. Du Bois Required Reading: Dennis, R. (1995). Social Darwinism, Scientific Racism, and the Metaphysics of Race. The Journal of Negro Education, 64(3), 243-252. https://www-jstororg.ezp.lib.unimelb.edu.au/stable/2967206 Graves, J. L. (2010). Biological V. Social Definitions of Race: Implications for Modern Biomedical Research. The Review of Black Political Economy, 37(1), 43–60. https://doi-org.ezp.lib.unimelb.edu.au/10.1007/s12114-009-9053-3 Recommended Reading: Duster, T. (2015). A post-genomic surprise. The molecular reinscription of race in science, law and medicine. British Journal of Sociology, 66(1), 1–27. https://doi-org.ezp.lib.unimelb.edu.au/10.1111/1468-4446.12118 W.E.B. Du Bois - https://www.naacp.org/naacp-history-w-e-b-dubois/ Extended learning Race – the Power of an Illusion • https://www.pbs.org/race/000_General/000_00-Home.htm •

Watch the documentary series https://unimelb-kanopy-com.ezp.lib.unimelb.edu.au/video/race-power-illusion-0

Eugenics Archives • http://eugenicsarchive.ca/discover/tree • http://eugenicsarchive.ca/discover/encyclopedia

Week Two: Empire & education: Eurocentrism, Orientalism & Othering Guest Lecture: A/Prof. Nikki Moodie: Recorded This week interrogates the ways in which the “Other” is constructed and the Occident is recentred, for example through schooling and education systems as mechanisms of racial stratification. Key ideas: essentialism, Orientalism, Othering, imperialism, colonialism, postcolonialism

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Required Reading: Said, E. W. (1979). Introduction. Orientalism New York: Vintage Books. 1-28. Scantlebury, K., McKinley, E., & Jesson, J. (2002). Imperial Knowledge: Science, education and equity. In B. E. Hernandez-Truyol & C. Gleason (Eds.), Moral imperialism: A critical anthology. New York: New York Law Review Press. 229-240. Required Example Objects Based Learning: Destiny Deacon

Recommended Reading: Extended learning Fanon, Franz (1967). Black Face White Mask, Grove Press. Said, E. W. (1979). Chapters 2 & 3. In Orientalism. New York: Vintage Books. Bhambra, G. K (2014) Chapter 6. Postcolonial and Decolonial Reconstructions. In Connected Sociologies, London: Bloomsbury, 119-139. Christian, M. (2019). A Global Critical Race and Racism Framework: Racial Entanglements and Deep and Malleable Whiteness. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 5(2), 169–185. https://doi.org/10.1177/2332649218783220 Watch: Rosalie Monks, Q& A ABC TV "I am not a problem" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=birnA3_tm5E Accessed 1st July 2014 Background learning UOM Library - Research Starter: Orientalism • https://ezp.lib.unimelb.edu.au/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?dire ct=true&db=ers&AN=96397555&site=eds-live&scope=site BBC Ideas - Orientalism and power: When will we stop stereotyping people? • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZST6qnRR1mY Orientalism: Critical Race and Postcolonial Theory • http://routledgesoc.com/category/profile-tags/orientalism Postcolonial Theory • https://ezp.lib.unimelb.edu.au/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?dire ct=true&db=ers&AN=95607469&site=eds-live&scope=site

1st Assessment, 800 words: Due 8pm Thursday 12 August, 2021 Week Three: Race, the racial gaze and racism This week explores what racism is – and is not – as well as common and disruptive frameworks for understanding various modalities and effects of racism.

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Key ideas: subject, object, agency, epistemic equity, racism, new racism, colourism Required Reading: Clair, M. & Denis, J. S. (2015). Racism, Sociology of. In James D. Wright (Editor-In-Chief), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition), Retrieved from: https://doi-org.ezp.lib.unimelb.edu.au/10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.32122-5 Habibis, D., Taylor, P., Walter, M., & Elder, C. (2016). Repositioning the Racial Gaze: Aboriginal Perspectives on Race, Race Relations and Governance. Social Inclusion, 4(1), 57-67. https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/article/view/492 Moodie, Nikki (2018) Decolonizing race theory: place, survivance & sovereignty. In G. Vass, J. Maxwell, S. Rudolph & K.N. Gulson (Eds.), The Relationality of Race in Education Research. London: Routledge. 33-46. Recommended Reading: Paradies, Y. (2017). Racism and Health. In Stella R. Quah (Editor-In-Chief), International Encyclopedia of Public Health (Second Edition), Retrieved from: https://doiorg.ezp.lib.unimelb.edu.au/10.1016/B978-0-12-803678-5.00372-6 Cunneen, C. (2006) Racism, Discrimination and the Over-representation of Indigenous People in the Criminal Justice System: Some Conceptual and Explanatory Issues. Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 17(3), pp. 329-346 Omi, M. & Winant, H. (2014). Racial Formation in the United States (3rd edn). New York: Routledge. https://www-taylorfrancis-com.ezp.lib.unimelb.edu.au/books/9780203076804 Ritzer George and Stepnisky, Jeoffrey (2013) 9th Ed. Chapt., 17 Social Theory in the Twenty first century: Critical Theories of Race and Racism: Queer Theory. In Sociological Theory, New York: McGraw Hill. 642-653.

Week Four: Race hate and white power: The persistence of racial stratification and Treaty The growth of far-right populist movements around the world often seems new to people who were socialized in White or White-majority socioeconomic contexts. However, settler colonial states have long benefited from the racist representation and persecution of people of colour. Key concepts: hyperincarceration, racial profiling, territoriality, intersectionality Required Reading: Bamblett, L., (2019) Rags to Riches: Aboriginal identity as Deficit, In Lawerence Bamblett, Fred Myers and Tim Rowse (Eds.,) The Difference Identity Makes: Indigenous Cultural Capital in Australian Cultural Fields, Sydney: Aboriginal Studies Press: 141-156. Connect to ebook (University of Melbourne only)

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Wacquant, L. (2010). Class, race & hyperincarceration in revanchist America. Daedalus, 139(3), 74-90. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.ezp.lib.unimelb.edu.au/stable/20749843

Recommended Reading: Crenshaw, K. (1991). Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color. Stanford Law Review, 43(6), 1241-1299. doi:10.2307/1229039 https://www-jstor-org.ezp.lib.unimelb.edu.au/stable/1229039 Wolfe, P. (2006). Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native. Journal of Genocide Research, 8(4), 387–409. https://doi-org.ezp.lib.unimelb.edu.au/10.1080/14623520601056240 Watson, I (2017) Aboriginal Treaties for the Past and Present ABC https://www.abc.net.au/indigenous/irene-watson-aboriginal-treaties-for-past-present-andfuture/11268294 Extended learning: Mutz D. C. (2018). Status threat, not economic hardship, explains the 2016 presidential vote. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(19), E4330–E4339. doi:10.1073/pnas.1718155115 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5948965/ Does the White Working Class Really Vote Against Its Own Interests? https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/31/trump-white-working-class-history216200

Week Five: Who is sociology for? Developing a skill set beyond discourse analysis We interrogate what the sociology of ‘race’ might look like if we were to actively work in support of racial justice and epistemic equity. What does it mean to do sociology, and be “relentlessly empirical” (Burawoy) if we refuse to reinvent genetic or epigenetic categories of race? Key ideas: data sovereignty, race and indigeneity are not predictor variables Required Reading: Snipp, M. (2016). Chapter 3 What does data sovereignty imply: what does it look like? In Tahu Kukutai and John Taylor (Eds.), Indigenous data sovereignty: Toward an agenda Canberra: ANU Press. 39-56. Retrieved from http://pressfiles.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/n2140/pdf/ch03.pdf (Book https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/caepr/indigenous-data-sovereignty) Walter, M (2016). The voice of Indigenous data: Beyond the markers of disadvantage, Griffith Review https://griffithreview.com/articles/voice-indigenous-data-beyond-disadvantage/

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Zuberi, T. (2001). Chapter 6 Challenging Race as a Variable. In Thicker than Blood: How Racial Statistics Lie. 105-122. University of Minnesota Press. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.ezp.lib.unimelb.edu.au/stable/10.5749/j.cttttcnc.14 (Book http://www.jstor.org.ezp.lib.unimelb.edu.au/stable/10.5749/j.cttttcnc)

Recommended Reading and Extended learning Bonilla-Silva, E., and Gianpaolo, B. (2001). Anything but racism: How sociologists limit the significance of racism. Race and Society, 4:117–131. https://doiorg.ezp.lib.unimelb.edu.au/10.1016/S1090-9524(03)00004-4 Walter, M., & Butler, K. (2013). Teaching race to teach Indigeneity. Journal of Sociology, 49(4), 397–410. https://doi.org/10.1177/1440783313504051 Community wellbeing best measured from the ground up: a Yawuru example https://theconversation.com/community-wellbeing-best-measured-from-the-ground-up-ayawuru-example-64162 Dobson, P. Mabu Liyan https://www.yawuru.org.au/community/mabu-liyan-framework/ The other sociologist: https://othersociologist.com/sociology-of-race/

Week Six: Racial justice and the limits of reconciliation: The endless reinvention of racism Key ideas: This week discusses why reconciliation and racial justice never seem to have a meaningful effect on the lives of Indigenous people and people of colour. If positive change rarely occurs at a systems level, what does it mean to bring the sociology of race and racism into our everyday lives, families and workplaces to create spaces of possibility, and new, more equitable ways of living and working? Required Reading Golash-Boza, T. (2016). A Critical and Comprehensive Sociological Theory of Race and Racism. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 2(2), 129–141. https://doi.org/10.1177/2332649216632242 https://journals-sagepub-com.ezp.lib.unimelb.edu.au/doi/full/10.1177/2332649216632242 Moreton-Robinson, A. (2015). The High Court and the Yorta Yorta decision. In The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty (pp. 79-92). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.ezp.lib.unimelb.edu.au/stable/10.5749/j.ctt155jmpf.10 •

Note that this is a republication of an earlier article that appears as Moreton-Robinson, A. (2004) The possessive logic of patriarchal white sovereignty: The High Court and the Yorta Yorta decision. Borderlands e-journal, 3(2). http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol3no2_2004/moreton_possessive.htm

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Watson, I (2005) 'Settled and Unsettled Spaces: Are we free to roam?', Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association Journal, 140-52.

Recommended Reading Dobson, M 1994 The End in the Beginning: Redefining Aboriginality https://humanrights.gov.au/about/news/speeches/end-beginning-redefinding-aboriginalitydodson-1994 Fitzgerald, K (2021) Race and Society: the essentials. Los Angeles: Sage Smith, C. (2018). Race and the logic of radicalisation under neoliberalism. Journal of Sociology, 54(1), 92–107. https://doi.org/10.1177/1440783318759093 Watson, I (2017) Aboriginal Treaties for the Past and Present ABC https://www.abc.net.au/indigenous/irene-watson-aboriginal-treaties-for-past-present-andfuture/11268294

Week Seven: ‘White Supremacy’, ‘White Fragility’ and Decolonising practices Building upon earlier weeks today focuses upon the operations of Whiteness through Mills (2017) analysis of how “white ignorance” relates to “white supremacy”, and Di Angelo’s (2017) examination of “white fragility”. To understand how whiteness operates epistemologically and in our everyday worlds, is to also confront the complex ways Whiteness accomplishes privilege, continues to benefit from structural racism and has embodied racial biases Required Reading: Di Angelo, R. (2011) White Fragility, International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, 3 (3), 54-70. Mills, C, W. (2017) Chapter 1, White Ignorance. In Black Rights/ White Wrongs: the critique of liberalism, New York: Oxford University Press. Recommended Reading: Bonilla-Silva, E. (2017). Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. Christian, M. (2019). A Global Critical Race and Racism Framework: Racial Entanglements and Deep and Malleable Whiteness. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 5(2), 169–185. https://doi.org/10.1177/2332649218783220 Moreton-Robinson, A. (Ed) (2004). Whiteness, Epistemology and Indigenous representation, Whitening Race, Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press. Tyler I. (2018) Resituating Goffman: From Stigma Power to Black Power, The Sociological Review Monographs, 66(4) 744 –765.

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2nd Assessment, 1200 words Short Critical Essay: Due 5pm Friday 10 September 2021 For numerous additional online articles which could also assist research for this essay and build upon required and recommended readings see also: Sociology of Race and Ethnicity https://journalssagepub-com.ezp.lib.unimelb.edu.au/home/sre (an online Journal)

Week Eight: Ethnicities Today’s lecture begins by unpacking some of the meanings of ethnicity and exploring how ethnicity as a c...