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POLI 4513

Contemporary Political Thought

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Winter 2021

Topics

  • Racist Acts on Turtle Island
  • The Need to Re-place Indigenous Peoples on Turtle Island
  • Literature Reviews and Projects Discussion
  • Placing Canada in Racist Discourse
  • Colonial Business
  • Walking Beside Indigenous Ways: The Road to Decolonized Space
  • Racism and Science
  • Measuring the “essence” of Humanity
  • Studying Racialized Communities and Power
  • Whiteness, Privilege and the Future of Reconciliation
  • Discussion and Formulation of Workshops

Readings

  • Chatwin, Bruce. (1988) The Songlines. Penguin
  • Harper, Kenn, (2001) Give Me My Father’s Body. Washington Square Press.
  • Saini, Angela, (2019) Superior: The Return of Race Science. Beacon Press.
  • Harper, Kenn, (2001) Give Me My Father’s Body. Fwd., Introduction and Sections 1-12
  • Mohawk, John. (1996) Review of Red Earth, White Lies by Vine Deloria, Jr.
  • Porr, Martin and Jacqueline M. Matthews. (2017) Post-colonialism, human origins and the paradox of modernity.
  • Harper, Kenn, (2001) Give Me My Father’s Body. Sections 13-25 and Epilogue
  • Connolly, William. (1994) Tocqueville, Territory and Violence.
  • Lewis, Bernard, (1998) The historical roots of racism.
  • Chatwin, Bruce. (1988) The Songlines.pp.1-85.
  • Healy, Gwen.(2016) (Re)settlement, displacement, and family separation: contributors to health inequality in Nunavut
  • Stanley, Timothy J (2020) Commemorating John A. Macdonald
  • Chatwin, Bruce. (1988) The Songlines pp. 86-162.
  • Schaffer, Gavin.(2005) Like a baby with a box of matches : British scientists and the concept of ‘race’ in the inter-war period.
  • Hebert, Joel (2019) “Sacred Trust”: Rethinking Late British Decolonization in Indigenous Canada.
  • Chatwin, Bruce. (1988) The Songlines. pp. 163-294.
  • Fernando, Tomaso, et. al (2020) Land, Territory, and Commons: Voices and Visions From the Struggles.
  • Pedri-Spade. Celeste.(2016) The Drum Is Your Document.
  • Saini, Angela, (2019). Superior: The Return of Race Science. Prologue and pp. 1-52.
  • Joseph-Salisbury, Remi (2019). Institutionalized Whiteness, Racial Microaggression and Black Bodies Out of Place in Higher Education.
  • Palmi’e , Stephan (2007), Genomics, Divination, “Racecraft.”
  • Saini, Angela, (2019) Superior: The Return of Race Science. pp. 53-87.
  • Gannett, Lisa. (2001) Racism and Human Genome Diversity Research: The Ethical Limits of "Population Thinking."
  • Kaufman, Jay S., Richard S. Cooper, and Daniel L. McGee. (1997) Socioeconomic Status and Health in Blacks and Whites: The Problem of Residual Confounding and the Resiliency of Race.
  • Saini, Angela, (2019) Superior: The Return of Race Science. pp. 87-144.
  • Small, Francine Allisa. (2014) The Racialization of Disease: A Qualitative and Quantitative Study of Race and Ethnicity in Biomedical Research.
  • Saini, Angela, (2019) Superior: The Return of Race Science. pp. 145-241.
  • Arai, Susan, (2009). Critical Race Theory and Social Justice Perspectives on Whiteness.
  • Laiola, Sarah Whitcomb. (2019) From Float to Flicker: Information Processing, Racial Semiotics, and Anti-racist Protest, from “I am a Man” to “Black Lives Matter/”
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