Race and Gender - YBLS033

• Title: Race and Gender
• Guaranteed by: Programme Liberal Arts and Humanities (24-SHVAJ)
• Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
• Actual: from 2025
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (10)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Is provided by: YMGS631
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Dagmar Regine Lorenz-Meyer, M.A., Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Dagmar Regine Lorenz-Meyer, M.A., Ph.D.
• Class: Courses available to incoming students
• Pre-requisite : {Group of prerequisites for LAH and Exchange students - SOC}
• Incompatibility : YMGS631
• Is incompatible with: YMGS631

Annotation

English

This course introduces students to critical studies of race and racism, including white innocence and bio- and necropolitics and their significance also in Central Europe. How are racialised distinctions being made, and wilfully ignored? Is race socially constructed and how? What innovative methods to study race and racism have been proposed, in particular in the absence of archives that include testimonies of marginalised people? How can racialised legacies become the ground for racial utopias and future imaginings?

Last update: Lorenz-Meyer Dagmar Regine, M.A., Ph.D. (05.09.2025)

Czech

This course introduces students to critical studies of race and racism, including white innocence and bio- and necropolitics and their significance also in Central Europe. How are racialised distinctions being made, and wilfully ignored? Is race socially constructed and how? What innovative methods to study race and racism have been proposed, in particular in the absence of archives that include testimonies of marginalised people? How can racialised legacies become the ground for racial utopias and future imaginings?

Last update: Matějková Anna, Mgr. (16.09.2025)

Course completion requirements

The course is co-taught with an MA course and directed at advanced BA students.

assessment

·       Active participation in class (discussion question, class exercises): 25%

·       Concept paper (2 pages): discuss one important analytical concept from the (required) readings. Explain what the concept refers to and what allows one to do in a particular situation (what you can analyse) by refering to a fieldnote; interview extract; film or novel extract; image etc. 700 words: 20% 

·       Abstract for final paper (research question, outline, sources) (c 1 page): 10%. 

·       Final paper (1600 words, without references or 3500 words,  co-written with another student): analyses a (surprising) vignette from a fieldnote, an interview, text, photograph, film extract from a perspective discussed in the course (must cite at least 3 sources from the course): 40%; deadline: 29 January 2024.

 

Last update: Lorenz-Meyer Dagmar Regine, M.A., Ph.D. (05.09.2025)

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a full syllabus will be uploaded at the beginning of the semester

Last update: Lorenz-Meyer Dagmar Regine, M.A., Ph.D. (05.09.2025)