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| HS 2330 - Black & South Asian Migration |
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Associated Term:
2024/25 Academic Session
Learning Objectives:
Historian, Stuart Hall explained in a 1991 essay: ‘Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities’: “People like me who came to England in the 1950s have been there for centuries; symbolically, we have been there for centuries. I was coming home. I am the sugar at the bottom of the English cup of tea. I am the sweet tooth, the sugar plantations that rotted generations of English children’s teeth. There are thousands of others beside me that are, you know, the cup of tea itself. Because they don't grow it in Lancashire, you know. Not a single tea plantation exists within the United Kingdom. This is the symbolization of English identity - mean, what does anybody in the world know about an English person except that they can't get through the day without a cup of tea? Where does it come from? Ceylon - Sri Lanka, India. That is the outside history that is inside the history of the English. There is no English history without that other history”. This module will unpack the global movement of migration of Black and South Asians to Britain to understand the lives of those who have been here for centuries, like sugar and tea. It considers various modalities of Black and South Asian lives, considering and mapping early presences in Britain, the eighteenth century, enslavement, how empire was experienced ‘at home’, the world wars, Windrush, imperial citizenship and race relations before tackling efforts to decolonise Britain. By interrogating a variety of source material, such as letters, oral histories, and historical objects we will build a picture of how home and citizenship was formed for Black and South Asian migrants, whether in their consciousness or in their new surroundings. The module spans over four centuries and uses specific case studies to interrogate Black and South Asian British histories.
Learning Outcomes:
1. To acquire a good level of knowledge regarding Black and South Asian migration to Britain from the 1700s to today;
2. To demonstrate analytical and critical skills with an ability to evaluate and assess the traditional histories of migration to Britain;
3. To develop the capacity for critical thinking of a range of primary sources from letters, diaries, photographs, legal acts, newspaper clippings, as well as multimedia sources;
4. To engage productively with complex historiographical debate and dispute;
5. To communicate ideas and marshal an argument clearly, both in group discussion and written work;
6. To build new skills via assessments related to telling a public history of the topic, whether in oral or visual form.
Required Materials: Click here for the reading list system Technical Requirements: The total number of notional learning hours associated with this module are 300. These will normally be broken down as follows: 40 hours of Seminars across 20 weeks 260 hours of Guided Independent Study Formative Assessment and Feedback: Summative Assessment: Critical Source Analysis (1000 words) - 15% Oral Presentation (10 minutes) - 15% Essay (2000 words) - 30% Unseen Exam (2 hours) - 40% |
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