Lehrende: Dr. Simon Strick
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan: Profilseminar D7
Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Credits: 6,0
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: 10 | 20
Weitere Informationen: M.A. Internationale Kriminologie: Profilmodul Spezielle Kriminologien M.A. Internationale Kriminologie und ggf. weitere M.A.-Studiengänge: Wahlbereich
Kommentare/ Inhalte: Critical Race Theory (CRT) has become an item of outrage in the German public sphere before its broad reception has even taken place. Simultaneously, the corpus of theories is currently under assault by pundits, institutions and censorship efforts in the US. This seminar will present and collectively read assorted texts from the early 20th century until today, in order to grasp the field’s various genealogies and affiliations (e.g. African American Studies, Black Studies, Black Feminist Studies) and contexts (e.g. Sociology, Cultural Studies, Critical Legal Studies). With this course, students will be introduced to the cultural, legal, historical and social situations that CRT and adjacent theorizations of race intervene into. Crucial concepts emerging from these fields – intersectionality, identity politics, abolitionism, afropessimism – will be explained and discussed. While mainly a reading course focusing on understanding and learning from the basic texts and contexts, the seminar will also trace CRTs transnational appeal by focusing on basic texts of Black scholarship and activism in Germany and discussing the affinities and differences between a critical discourse on race in Germany and the US.
Literatur: Prep reading: Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw: „The First Decade: Critical Reflections, or A Foot in the Closing Door“. UCLA Law Review 1343 (2001): 1343-1372 http://www2.law.columbia.edu/fagan/courses/law_socialscience/documents/Spring_2006/Class%202-Origins%20of%20Social%20Science%20Law/Crenshaw_Foot_in_the_Closing_Door.pdf
Zusätzliche Hinweise zu Prüfungen: Prüfungsleistung im Rahmen des Profilmoduls und Wahlbereichs: A final 5-page paper has to be submitted Bewertungsschema: benotet Abgabetermin: Ausgabe der bewerteten Prüfungsleistung: direkt bei den Dozent:innen Weitere in der Veranstaltung im Rahmen des Profilmoduls und des Wahlbereichs zu erbringende (unbenotete) Studienleistungen: All students have to adopt a text/context (present it in class), as well as write 2-3 short commentaries/discussion protocols.
