ENGL/HIST 910 (Spring 2016): London, England, Britain:
National Identities and Their Discontents
Anu Needham: [email protected];
Steve Volk; [email protected]
Donna Vinter (Program office): 020 7419 1178; [email protected]
Meeting times: Mondays and Wednesdays, 1:00-3:00 PM at the Program Center, Room 46
The joint course will use historical, literary, museological and archival approaches to examine the formation of national identity/identities in the UK, focusing on the ways that London, England, and Britain present different (often conflicting) set of markers to define who they are and what implications this holds for the location of a “national” identity. The uncertainties inherent in the on-going project of defining (or refusing) national identity/identifications reflect persistent tensions in London as a plurinational metropolis, England as the territory of an imagined historical and racial homogeneity, and Britain as a political, economic, and cultural geography shaped by centuries of colonial expansion. Covering the period from the “Glorious Revolution” (1688-89) to contemporary identity challenges generated by the 2005 London bombings, the UK riots of 2011, the 2012 London Olympics, and on-going attempts to define “us” vs. “them” that originate in the refugee crisis and incidents of terrorism in Europe, we will explore how the identity/identities of the “isles” was formed through antagonisms, exclusions and inclusions, and a persistent desire to specify what or who represents the nation.
Our focus will enable the exploration of a subject—national self-definition and identity—that continues to preoccupy scholars in a number of fields (history, politics, literature) despite the relentless drive towards globalization that presumably is producing a world without national boundaries. In particular, the inquiry this course undertakes rests on the recognition, currently central to the study of British history and cultural studies, of the seminal impact of the so-called peripheries on the making of British identity. As such, our examination also looks at the formation of what is in effect a multicultural, multiracial Britain, at odds with the much more familiar concept of “this island nation” as defined by a uniform (white, English, Protestant) identity.
National Identities and Their Discontents
Anu Needham: [email protected];
Steve Volk; [email protected]
Donna Vinter (Program office): 020 7419 1178; [email protected]
Meeting times: Mondays and Wednesdays, 1:00-3:00 PM at the Program Center, Room 46
The joint course will use historical, literary, museological and archival approaches to examine the formation of national identity/identities in the UK, focusing on the ways that London, England, and Britain present different (often conflicting) set of markers to define who they are and what implications this holds for the location of a “national” identity. The uncertainties inherent in the on-going project of defining (or refusing) national identity/identifications reflect persistent tensions in London as a plurinational metropolis, England as the territory of an imagined historical and racial homogeneity, and Britain as a political, economic, and cultural geography shaped by centuries of colonial expansion. Covering the period from the “Glorious Revolution” (1688-89) to contemporary identity challenges generated by the 2005 London bombings, the UK riots of 2011, the 2012 London Olympics, and on-going attempts to define “us” vs. “them” that originate in the refugee crisis and incidents of terrorism in Europe, we will explore how the identity/identities of the “isles” was formed through antagonisms, exclusions and inclusions, and a persistent desire to specify what or who represents the nation.
Our focus will enable the exploration of a subject—national self-definition and identity—that continues to preoccupy scholars in a number of fields (history, politics, literature) despite the relentless drive towards globalization that presumably is producing a world without national boundaries. In particular, the inquiry this course undertakes rests on the recognition, currently central to the study of British history and cultural studies, of the seminal impact of the so-called peripheries on the making of British identity. As such, our examination also looks at the formation of what is in effect a multicultural, multiracial Britain, at odds with the much more familiar concept of “this island nation” as defined by a uniform (white, English, Protestant) identity.
Readings:
There are a few books required for the course which can either be purchased in the
U.S.and taken with you or purchased (usually second hand) in London, although book prices
are generally higher there. All articles in the syllabus are available on Blackboard, which you
can access in London.
Requirements:
Besides keeping up with the readings, each student will write 3 short (2-3 page) analytical
responses to a given reading or set of readings within a unit. The readings that can be used
for responses will be marked by a (*) in the syllabus. You can choose to write on any single reading marked with an * or any sets of readings that contain one reading marked by an *. In the responses you should feel free to reflect back on previous readings as well as responding to the specific readings you have chosen. At least one of these responses will be due before Spring Break; one will be in response to a “history” reading (H), one to a “literature” (L) reading, and the third is your choice. [Updated March 2]
In addition each student, as member of a group of other students (some smaller, some larger), will help facilitate the discussion for 2 units—again one history (H) and one lit (L). As logistically possible, one of these should be before Spring Break, one after.
Books Recommended for Purchase:
Kazuo Ishiguro, Remains of the Day (Vintage International, 1990).
Sam Selvon, Moses Ascending (London, Portsmouth, NH: Heineman), 1991.
Olaudah Equiano, Life of Olaudah Equiano, of Gustavus Vassa, the African (Dover Thrift Editions, 1999), or any edition [1790].
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (any edition).
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (any edition).
V.S. Naipaul, The Enigma of Arrival (any edition. Consider Vintage 1988 ed.)
Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia (Penguin), 1991.
There are a few books required for the course which can either be purchased in the
U.S.and taken with you or purchased (usually second hand) in London, although book prices
are generally higher there. All articles in the syllabus are available on Blackboard, which you
can access in London.
Requirements:
Besides keeping up with the readings, each student will write 3 short (2-3 page) analytical
responses to a given reading or set of readings within a unit. The readings that can be used
for responses will be marked by a (*) in the syllabus. You can choose to write on any single reading marked with an * or any sets of readings that contain one reading marked by an *. In the responses you should feel free to reflect back on previous readings as well as responding to the specific readings you have chosen. At least one of these responses will be due before Spring Break; one will be in response to a “history” reading (H), one to a “literature” (L) reading, and the third is your choice. [Updated March 2]
In addition each student, as member of a group of other students (some smaller, some larger), will help facilitate the discussion for 2 units—again one history (H) and one lit (L). As logistically possible, one of these should be before Spring Break, one after.
Books Recommended for Purchase:
Kazuo Ishiguro, Remains of the Day (Vintage International, 1990).
Sam Selvon, Moses Ascending (London, Portsmouth, NH: Heineman), 1991.
Olaudah Equiano, Life of Olaudah Equiano, of Gustavus Vassa, the African (Dover Thrift Editions, 1999), or any edition [1790].
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (any edition).
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (any edition).
V.S. Naipaul, The Enigma of Arrival (any edition. Consider Vintage 1988 ed.)
Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia (Penguin), 1991.
SYLLABUS
Feb. 1, 3: Introduction – English or British?
Monday, Feb. 1: Introduction (Anu and Steve)
Krishan Kumar, “English or British? The Question of English National Identity,” and “Nations and Nationalism: Civic, Ethnic and
Imperial,” in The Makings of English National Identity (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003): 1-38.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., “Black London,” New Yorker (April 28 and May 5, 1997): 194-205.
C.L.R. James, “The Nucleus of a Great Civilization,” in Letters from London (Oxford: Signal Books, 2003) [1932]: pp. 111-125.
OPTIONAL: Charlie Jeffery, Richard Wyn Jones, Ailsa Henderson, Roger Scully and Guy Lodge, “Taking England Seriously: The
New English Politics. The Future of England Survey, 2014” [pdf]
Wednesday, Feb. 3: Ishiguro (Anu)
Kazuo Ishiguro, Remains of the Day (Vintage International, 1990).
Monday, Feb. 1: Introduction (Anu and Steve)
Krishan Kumar, “English or British? The Question of English National Identity,” and “Nations and Nationalism: Civic, Ethnic and
Imperial,” in The Makings of English National Identity (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003): 1-38.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., “Black London,” New Yorker (April 28 and May 5, 1997): 194-205.
C.L.R. James, “The Nucleus of a Great Civilization,” in Letters from London (Oxford: Signal Books, 2003) [1932]: pp. 111-125.
OPTIONAL: Charlie Jeffery, Richard Wyn Jones, Ailsa Henderson, Roger Scully and Guy Lodge, “Taking England Seriously: The
New English Politics. The Future of England Survey, 2014” [pdf]
Wednesday, Feb. 3: Ishiguro (Anu)
Kazuo Ishiguro, Remains of the Day (Vintage International, 1990).
Feb. 8, 10: Inventing England: the late 17th century
Feb. 8: Macaulay and the Invention of the Modern English Nation (Steve)
Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from
the Accession of James II (Philadelphia: E. H. Butler & Co,
1856), Vol. 1, Chapter 3, pp. 218-220.
(*) Catherine Hall, “Macaulay’s History of England: A Book
That Shaped Nation and Empire,” in Antniette Burton and
Isabel Hofmeyr, eds., Ten Books That Shaped the British
Empire (Durham: Duke University Press, 2014): pp. 70-89.
(*) Krishan Kumar, “The Making of British Identity,” in The
Makings of English National Identity (New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2003), pp. 121-136 (up to the section that
begins "Britons: Welsh and Irish." [OPTIONAL: pgs. 136-174]
Feb. 10: The Strange and “Glorious” Revolution (Steve) [UPDATED Feb. 8, 5pm]
(*) Selected documents from Steven C.A. Pincus, England’s Glorious Revolution (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 2006). [NOTE:
Read through Document 12 only - beyond that is Optional].
Roy Strong, Coronation (London: Harper Perennial, 2005), pp. 279-287 (Note: copy is a bit hard to read at the margins: do as best
as you can).
(*) Rachel Weil, “National Security and Secularization in the English Revolution of 1688,” in W. F. Sullivan, R. A. Yelle, and M.
Taussig-Rubbo, eds. After Secular Law (Stanford: Stanford Law Books, 2011), pp. 80-100.
OPTIONAL: H.E. Marshall, “Defoe – the First Newspapers, and “Defoe – ‘Robinson Crusoe,’” in English Literature for Boys and Girls
(London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1909): 434-447.
OPTIONAL: Daniel Defoe, “True Born Englishman”: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173337
OPTIONAL: Lois G. Schwoerer, “The Coronation of William and Mary, April 11, 1689,” in Lois G. Schoerer, ed., The Revolution of
1688-89: Changing Perspectives (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), pp. 107-130.
Friday, Feb. 12: Visit to Samuel Pepys: Plague, Fire, Revolution Exhibition at the National Maritime Museum,
Greenwich (includes trip on Thames: time tba).
Feb. 15, 17: British Colonialism and the Mapping of an English (National) Identity
Feb. 8: Macaulay and the Invention of the Modern English Nation (Steve)
Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from
the Accession of James II (Philadelphia: E. H. Butler & Co,
1856), Vol. 1, Chapter 3, pp. 218-220.
(*) Catherine Hall, “Macaulay’s History of England: A Book
That Shaped Nation and Empire,” in Antniette Burton and
Isabel Hofmeyr, eds., Ten Books That Shaped the British
Empire (Durham: Duke University Press, 2014): pp. 70-89.
(*) Krishan Kumar, “The Making of British Identity,” in The
Makings of English National Identity (New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2003), pp. 121-136 (up to the section that
begins "Britons: Welsh and Irish." [OPTIONAL: pgs. 136-174]
Feb. 10: The Strange and “Glorious” Revolution (Steve) [UPDATED Feb. 8, 5pm]
(*) Selected documents from Steven C.A. Pincus, England’s Glorious Revolution (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 2006). [NOTE:
Read through Document 12 only - beyond that is Optional].
Roy Strong, Coronation (London: Harper Perennial, 2005), pp. 279-287 (Note: copy is a bit hard to read at the margins: do as best
as you can).
(*) Rachel Weil, “National Security and Secularization in the English Revolution of 1688,” in W. F. Sullivan, R. A. Yelle, and M.
Taussig-Rubbo, eds. After Secular Law (Stanford: Stanford Law Books, 2011), pp. 80-100.
OPTIONAL: H.E. Marshall, “Defoe – the First Newspapers, and “Defoe – ‘Robinson Crusoe,’” in English Literature for Boys and Girls
(London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1909): 434-447.
OPTIONAL: Daniel Defoe, “True Born Englishman”: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173337
OPTIONAL: Lois G. Schwoerer, “The Coronation of William and Mary, April 11, 1689,” in Lois G. Schoerer, ed., The Revolution of
1688-89: Changing Perspectives (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), pp. 107-130.
Friday, Feb. 12: Visit to Samuel Pepys: Plague, Fire, Revolution Exhibition at the National Maritime Museum,
Greenwich (includes trip on Thames: time tba).
Feb. 15, 17: British Colonialism and the Mapping of an English (National) Identity
Selections from Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (Anu)
(*) Sam Selvon, Moses Ascending (London, Portsmouth, NH:
Heineman), 1991. (Student led)
Feb. 22, 24: Inventing Citizenship and Freedom: the late 18th century
Feb. 22: Citizenship and its Others in the 18th Century (Steve)
(*) Kathleen Wilson, “Citizenship, Empire and Modernity in the
English Provinces,” in The Island Race: Englishness, Empire and
Gender in the Eighteenth Century (London and NY: Routledge,
2003): 157- 186.
(*) Olaudah Equiano, Life of Olaudah Equiano, of Gustavus Vassa, the African (Dover Thrift Editions, 1999) or Penguin Classic
edition (2003) [1790]. NOTE: Whatever your edition, look at the original title page, the image of Equiano, and read the "Dedication"
page ("To the Lords Spiritual and Temporal...).
OPTIONAL: Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, “Sharp and Mansfield: Slavery in the Courts,” Black London: Life before Emancipation
(New Brunswick: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1995): 90-132.
Monday, Feb. 22: 3:00 PM - OPTIONAL visit to Kenwood House in Hampsted Heath, the home of William Murray, 1st Earl of
Mansfield where Dido Elizabeth Belle was raised by her grand-uncle in the years that he oversaw two key slavery issues.
Feb. 24: Slavery and Freedom (Student-led; H) :
(*) Olaudah Equiano, Life of Olaudah Equiano, of Gustavus Vassa, the African (Dover Thrift Editions, 1999) or Penguin Classic
edition (2003) [1790].
Friday, Feb. 26: Visit to Brixton and Black Cultural Archive, 11:00 AM (directions will be given in class)
Feb. 29, March 2: Inventing Englishness: London 1790-1830
Feb 29: 1:00-3:00PM: Visit to "Artist & Empire" exhibit at Tate Britain (meet at Tate Britain, inside Atterbury St Entrance)
3:30-5:00 PM: Return to Centre, Tea and Discussion of Museum and Reading: Making London Western (Student-led, H)
(*) Saree Makdisi, “Preface,” and “Making London Western,” in Making England Western: Occidentalism, Race & Imperial Culture
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014), pp. ix-xx and 39-86.
“Slaves and Labourers,” The Saturday Review [London], January 16, 1864.
OPTIONAL: Paul Young, “Mission Impossible: Globalization and the Great Exhibition,” and Kylie Message and Ewan Johnston,
“The World Within the City: The Great Exhibition, Race, Class and Social Reform,” in Jeffrey A. Auerbach and Peter H. Hoffenberg,
eds., Britain, the Empire, and the World at the Great Exhibition of 1851 (Ashgate Publishing Group, 2000), pp. 3-46.
March 2, 7, 9: British Romanticism and Empire, 19th Century (Led by Larry Needham)
March 2: Wordsworth and London (Larry):
(*) William Wordsworth, Prelude, Book 7: Residence in London (focus on lines 150-400 and 619-771); selections from Guide to the
Lakes, and Preface to Lyrical Ballads ( 1 1/2 pages), and "Michael: A Pastoral Poem".
P.B. Macaulay, Southey's Colloquies (one page excerpt).
Ingrid Pollard, "Pastoral Interludes" (text and images).
Friday, March 4: Visit to East London Mosque (10:00 AM: details to be arranged); lunch (paid for) at Lahore Kabob House)
March 7: DeQuincey and Coleridge (Student led, L)
(*) Selections from Thomas DeQuincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.
(*) Samuel Coleridge, Rime of the Ancient Mariner ((any edition, or various on-line versions. The Electronic Text Center at the
University of Virginia has a very nice on-line edition with illustrations from many 19th century editions of the work: (Student led)
March 9: Frankenstein (Student led, L)
(*) Mary Shelley, Frankenstein [any edition will do; if you want a recommendation: Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus;
edited with an introduction and notes by M.K. Joseph (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press) 1998]. NOTE: Focus on
Letters I-IV from Walton to his sister; Chapters 1, 6-8; Chapters 4-5; Chapters 11-12; Chapters 13-15; and Chapters 18-20 [this will
also be your group break-out group work).
SPRING BREAK: NOTE CHANGES IN SECOND HALF OF THE SEMESTER ADDED FEB. 29
March 21: Inhabiting Englishness - Heart of Darkness
March 21: (*) Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (any edition).(Student led, L)
NOTE: OPTIONAL: 3:15-4:45 PM Watch "My Son the Fanatic"
March 23: No class - catch up on your paper-writing, reading. We'll be available to talk with you about your papers
March 28, 30: Inhabiting Englishness - Enigma of Arrival
March 28, 30: (*) V.S. Naipaul, The Enigma of Arrival (any edition. Consider Vintage 1988 ed.) (Student led, L)
(*) Selections from Thomas DeQuincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.
(*) Samuel Coleridge, Rime of the Ancient Mariner ((any edition, or various on-line versions. The Electronic Text Center at the
University of Virginia has a very nice on-line edition with illustrations from many 19th century editions of the work: (Student led)
March 9: Frankenstein (Student led, L)
(*) Mary Shelley, Frankenstein [any edition will do; if you want a recommendation: Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus;
edited with an introduction and notes by M.K. Joseph (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press) 1998]. NOTE: Focus on
Letters I-IV from Walton to his sister; Chapters 1, 6-8; Chapters 4-5; Chapters 11-12; Chapters 13-15; and Chapters 18-20 [this will
also be your group break-out group work).
SPRING BREAK: NOTE CHANGES IN SECOND HALF OF THE SEMESTER ADDED FEB. 29
March 21: Inhabiting Englishness - Heart of Darkness
March 21: (*) Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (any edition).(Student led, L)
NOTE: OPTIONAL: 3:15-4:45 PM Watch "My Son the Fanatic"
March 23: No class - catch up on your paper-writing, reading. We'll be available to talk with you about your papers
March 28, 30: Inhabiting Englishness - Enigma of Arrival
March 28, 30: (*) V.S. Naipaul, The Enigma of Arrival (any edition. Consider Vintage 1988 ed.) (Student led, L)
April 4: England Your England: Colonialism and Crisis/Colonialism in Crisis (Steve)
George Orwell, "Shooting an Elephant" (1936).
(*) Orwell, “England, Your England,” (1941).
OPTIONAL
William Ernest Henley, "England, My England" (1898).
D.H. Lawrence, "England, My England" (1922).
(*) Becky Conekin, Frank Mort, and Chris Waters, “Introduction,” in Moments of Modernity: Reconstructing Britain, 1945-1964
(London: Rivers Oram Press, 1999), 1-21.
Bevis Hillier, “Introduction,” in Mary Banham and Bevis Hillier, eds., A Tonic to the Nation: The Festival of Britain 1951 (London:
Thames and Hudson, 1976), pp. 10-19.
(*) F. M. Leventhal, “ ‘A Tonic to the Nation’: The Festival of Britain, 1951,” Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies
27: 3 (Autumn1955): 445-453.
Michael Frayn, “Festival Spirit,” The Guardian, May 3, 2001 [part of a longer essay by Frayn in Michael Sissons and Philip French,
Age of Austerity (Hodder & Stoughton, 1963).
Festival of Britain (1951) (Click on link for video)
Gillian McIntosh, “A Performance of Consensus? The Coronation Visit of Elizabeth II to Northern Ireland,” Irish Studies
Review 10:3 (2002): 315-329.
April 6, 11: Sports and Spectacle in the New Century
April 6: Lagaan (Dir: Ashutosh Gowariker, 2001). Film to be screened at British Film Institute (BFI), 21 St. Stephen Street, W1P 2LN
George Orwell, "Shooting an Elephant" (1936).
(*) Orwell, “England, Your England,” (1941).
OPTIONAL
William Ernest Henley, "England, My England" (1898).
D.H. Lawrence, "England, My England" (1922).
(*) Becky Conekin, Frank Mort, and Chris Waters, “Introduction,” in Moments of Modernity: Reconstructing Britain, 1945-1964
(London: Rivers Oram Press, 1999), 1-21.
Bevis Hillier, “Introduction,” in Mary Banham and Bevis Hillier, eds., A Tonic to the Nation: The Festival of Britain 1951 (London:
Thames and Hudson, 1976), pp. 10-19.
(*) F. M. Leventhal, “ ‘A Tonic to the Nation’: The Festival of Britain, 1951,” Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies
27: 3 (Autumn1955): 445-453.
Michael Frayn, “Festival Spirit,” The Guardian, May 3, 2001 [part of a longer essay by Frayn in Michael Sissons and Philip French,
Age of Austerity (Hodder & Stoughton, 1963).
Festival of Britain (1951) (Click on link for video)
Gillian McIntosh, “A Performance of Consensus? The Coronation Visit of Elizabeth II to Northern Ireland,” Irish Studies
Review 10:3 (2002): 315-329.
April 6, 11: Sports and Spectacle in the New Century
April 6: Lagaan (Dir: Ashutosh Gowariker, 2001). Film to be screened at British Film Institute (BFI), 21 St. Stephen Street, W1P 2LN
Anuradha Dingwaney Needham, “Inhabiting the Metropole: C.L.R. James and the
Postcolonial Intellectual of the African Diaspora,” Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies
(1993): 281-304.
Satadru Sen, “Cameleon Games: Ranjitsinghji's Politics of Race and Gender,” Journal of
Colonialism and Colonial History 2:3 (Dec.2001). Read paragraphs 1-39, 54, 77-97.
"Tebbit proposes 'Cricket Test' for Immigrants"
"Split between Britain, U.S. seen as 'Inevitable,'" Los Angeles Times, April 19, 1990.
Optional:
Arjun Appadurai, “Playing with Modernity: The Decolonization of Indian Cricket,” in Carol A.
Breckenbridge (ed.) Consuming Modernity: Public Culture in a South Asian World.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995: 23-48.
Dominic Malcolm, “Cricket and Changing Conceptions of Englishness,” in Globalizing Cricket:
Englishness, Empire and Identity (London: Bloomsbury, 2012), pp. 122-140.
Postcolonial Intellectual of the African Diaspora,” Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies
(1993): 281-304.
Satadru Sen, “Cameleon Games: Ranjitsinghji's Politics of Race and Gender,” Journal of
Colonialism and Colonial History 2:3 (Dec.2001). Read paragraphs 1-39, 54, 77-97.
"Tebbit proposes 'Cricket Test' for Immigrants"
"Split between Britain, U.S. seen as 'Inevitable,'" Los Angeles Times, April 19, 1990.
Optional:
Arjun Appadurai, “Playing with Modernity: The Decolonization of Indian Cricket,” in Carol A.
Breckenbridge (ed.) Consuming Modernity: Public Culture in a South Asian World.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995: 23-48.
Dominic Malcolm, “Cricket and Changing Conceptions of Englishness,” in Globalizing Cricket:
Englishness, Empire and Identity (London: Bloomsbury, 2012), pp. 122-140.
April 11: Sports: England and Britain. Discussion of Lagaan and Cricket (first half), and Football (second half) (Student-led, H)
NOTE: Readings for cricket are above under April 6.
(*) Les Back, Tim Crabbe, and John Solmos, “‘Keep St George in My Heart’: England Fans, Race, Nation and Identity,” in Back,
Crabbe and Solomos, The Changing Face of Football: Racism, Identity and Multiculture in the English Game (NY: Berg, 2001):
221-251.
(*) Tom Gibbons, “Fan Debates on Team GB at the London 2012 Olympics and the Aluminia Case,” in English National Identity and
Football Fan Culture: Who Are Ya? (Ashgate, 2014), pp. 87-122.
(*) David Goldblatt, "How the English football team came to embody Englishness," Guardian, October 23, 2014.
April 13: Ismail Einashe: Guest Lecture on Migration issues and Terrorism (Bombings)
April 18: A New Kind of English[ness]: Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia
(*) Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia (Penguin), 1991. (Student led, L)
Recommended Readings:
Hanif Kureishi, “The Rainbow Sign,” in London Kills Me (Penguin), pp. 3-37.
Hanif Kureishi, “Hanif Kureishi on London,” Critical Quarterly 41:3 (1999): 37-56.
Stuart Hall, “New Ethnicities,” in David Morley and Kuan-Hsing Chen, eds., Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies
(London and New York: Routledge, 1996), pp. 441-449.
April 20th: Guest lecture: Susheila Nasta: India in Bloomsbury
(No required readings)
NOTE: Readings for cricket are above under April 6.
(*) Les Back, Tim Crabbe, and John Solmos, “‘Keep St George in My Heart’: England Fans, Race, Nation and Identity,” in Back,
Crabbe and Solomos, The Changing Face of Football: Racism, Identity and Multiculture in the English Game (NY: Berg, 2001):
221-251.
(*) Tom Gibbons, “Fan Debates on Team GB at the London 2012 Olympics and the Aluminia Case,” in English National Identity and
Football Fan Culture: Who Are Ya? (Ashgate, 2014), pp. 87-122.
(*) David Goldblatt, "How the English football team came to embody Englishness," Guardian, October 23, 2014.
April 13: Ismail Einashe: Guest Lecture on Migration issues and Terrorism (Bombings)
April 18: A New Kind of English[ness]: Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia
(*) Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia (Penguin), 1991. (Student led, L)
Recommended Readings:
Hanif Kureishi, “The Rainbow Sign,” in London Kills Me (Penguin), pp. 3-37.
Hanif Kureishi, “Hanif Kureishi on London,” Critical Quarterly 41:3 (1999): 37-56.
Stuart Hall, “New Ethnicities,” in David Morley and Kuan-Hsing Chen, eds., Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies
(London and New York: Routledge, 1996), pp. 441-449.
April 20th: Guest lecture: Susheila Nasta: India in Bloomsbury
(No required readings)
;
April 25: Multicultural Imaginings? The Turn of the 21st Century
Optional background reading: Stuart Hall, "The Neoliberal Revolution," Cultural Studies 25:6 (November 2011): 705-728.
April 25: 1st Hour: Trafalgar Square - July 6 & 7, 2005 (Student-led; H)
(*) Shanti Sumartojo, “Britishness in Trafalgar Square: Urban Place and the Construction of National Identity,” Studies in Ethnicity
and Nationalism 9:3 (2009): 410-428.
April 25: 2nd Hour: Social Policy and Community (Student-led; H)
(*) Jon Burnett, Institute of Race Relations (London), Entitlement and Belonging: Social Restructuring and Multicultural Britain: An
IRR discussion paper on the Housing and Planning Bill 2015 and the Immigration Bill 2015 (n.d.).
Notes:
* "BAME Communities": "British, Asian, and Minority Ethnic";
* "English votes for English laws," applied for the first time with the two bills here, allows England MPs to veto measures thought
to concern England only. More here;
* "Secure tenancies": Secure tenant in "housing associations" (public housing) have the right to live in their homes as long as they
don't break the rules of rental agreements. The housing association can only evict them as a last resort;
* "Pay to stay": Tenants in what we would called "rent-controlled" housing (in the UK, "social" housing) will find their rents increased
to market levels if their incomes are over a certain level;
* EEA (European Economic Area);
* Local authorities: Basically, the local governments that can collect council and business taxes. There are 326 of these in
England, including 32 London borough councils and the City of London Corporation. More here;
* "Council housing" is (social) housing built by a local municipality and rented out under specific conditions;
* "Bedroom tax" - tenant will receive less in housing benefit if they live in a housing association or council property that is deemed
to have one or more spare bedrooms;
* SUS laws: Dating from 1824, basically allowing authorities to stop, search, and possibly arrest individuals based on suspicion
alone. These are basically the same as US "stop and search" laws based only on "suspicion";
* "Fast-track evictions" - allows landlords to evict tenants without going to court if they are 8 weeks behind in rent.
* "Sink estates" - British council housing estate characterized by high levels of economic and social deprivation; sometimes
high crime areas.
OPTIONAL:
Trevor Phillips, "What do British Muslims Really Think?" Sunday Times Magazine [London], April 10, 2016, pp. 18-23. [For a
critique of Phillips' methodology, see Rachel Shabi, "Beware of 'What do British Muslims Really Think.'" Al Jazeera English,
April 14, 2016.]
“The Ethnic Population of England and Wales Broken Down By Local Authority,” The Guardian, May 18, 2011.
“Ethnic Breakdown of England and Wales Mapped,” The Guardian, May 19, 2011.
“London Ethnic Groups Mapped,” The Guardian.
BBC-3, “Minefield: One Country, One Culture,” 27 March 2006.
April 25: Multicultural Imaginings? The Turn of the 21st Century
Optional background reading: Stuart Hall, "The Neoliberal Revolution," Cultural Studies 25:6 (November 2011): 705-728.
April 25: 1st Hour: Trafalgar Square - July 6 & 7, 2005 (Student-led; H)
(*) Shanti Sumartojo, “Britishness in Trafalgar Square: Urban Place and the Construction of National Identity,” Studies in Ethnicity
and Nationalism 9:3 (2009): 410-428.
April 25: 2nd Hour: Social Policy and Community (Student-led; H)
(*) Jon Burnett, Institute of Race Relations (London), Entitlement and Belonging: Social Restructuring and Multicultural Britain: An
IRR discussion paper on the Housing and Planning Bill 2015 and the Immigration Bill 2015 (n.d.).
Notes:
* "BAME Communities": "British, Asian, and Minority Ethnic";
* "English votes for English laws," applied for the first time with the two bills here, allows England MPs to veto measures thought
to concern England only. More here;
* "Secure tenancies": Secure tenant in "housing associations" (public housing) have the right to live in their homes as long as they
don't break the rules of rental agreements. The housing association can only evict them as a last resort;
* "Pay to stay": Tenants in what we would called "rent-controlled" housing (in the UK, "social" housing) will find their rents increased
to market levels if their incomes are over a certain level;
* EEA (European Economic Area);
* Local authorities: Basically, the local governments that can collect council and business taxes. There are 326 of these in
England, including 32 London borough councils and the City of London Corporation. More here;
* "Council housing" is (social) housing built by a local municipality and rented out under specific conditions;
* "Bedroom tax" - tenant will receive less in housing benefit if they live in a housing association or council property that is deemed
to have one or more spare bedrooms;
* SUS laws: Dating from 1824, basically allowing authorities to stop, search, and possibly arrest individuals based on suspicion
alone. These are basically the same as US "stop and search" laws based only on "suspicion";
* "Fast-track evictions" - allows landlords to evict tenants without going to court if they are 8 weeks behind in rent.
* "Sink estates" - British council housing estate characterized by high levels of economic and social deprivation; sometimes
high crime areas.
OPTIONAL:
Trevor Phillips, "What do British Muslims Really Think?" Sunday Times Magazine [London], April 10, 2016, pp. 18-23. [For a
critique of Phillips' methodology, see Rachel Shabi, "Beware of 'What do British Muslims Really Think.'" Al Jazeera English,
April 14, 2016.]
“The Ethnic Population of England and Wales Broken Down By Local Authority,” The Guardian, May 18, 2011.
“Ethnic Breakdown of England and Wales Mapped,” The Guardian, May 19, 2011.
“London Ethnic Groups Mapped,” The Guardian.
BBC-3, “Minefield: One Country, One Culture,” 27 March 2006.
April 27: Conclusion (Anu & Steve)
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