Syllabus

Primary texts

  • Alison Wong (2009): As the Earth Turns Silver
  • Langston Hughes (1926) : "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" *
  •  Langston Hughes (1965): "Dinner Guest: Me" *
  • Leslie Marmon Silko (1977):  Ceremony 
  • Hanif Kureishi (1990): The Buddha of Suburbia
  • Seamus Heaney: Selected poetry *
  • Christos Tsiolkas (2008): The slap
  • Ta-Nehisi Coates  (2015): Between the World and Me

*These texts will be made available in the Classroom/Fellesrom on Fronter

 

Secondary readings

(Available online or in the Classroom/Fellesrom on Fronter)

  • Peggy McIntosh: “White Privilege and Male Privilege"
  • Beverley Daniel Tatum: “Talking about Race, Learning about Racism”                   
  • Howard Zinn: “Columbus, the Indians and Human Progress"
  • Stanley Fish: “Boutique Multiculturalism, or Why Liberals Are Incapable of Thinking about Hate Speech”                  
  • A. Finlay: “Multiculturalism after the Good Friday Agreement”        
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