This ten-week evening course will introduce participants to theories of race and ethnicity, locating race within social, economic, political and ideological relations and situating race and racism in relation to other divisions such as class and gender and to emerging changes in Irish society. Issues specific to Irish society will include the position of the Traveller community, the links between racialisation and the asylum/migration processes, and between racism and anti-racism. All participants are welcome but it is specifically suited to public sector and NGO (non-governmental organisation) employees.

Topics include:

• • Exploring the conceptual confusion around race and ethnicity
• • Ethnicity: negotiating boundaries
• • What is racism? Racialising the ‘other’
• • Racism in Irish society (including the asylum process)
• • The politics of multiculturalism/interculturalism/equality: state responses to racism
• • Ethnicity and nationalism
• • Immigration and racism
• • Diaspora and hybridity
• • Racism and anti-racism: social movement responses to racism

How to apply

Register in advance by sending your name, correspondence address and cheque or postal money order (made payable to Trinity College no. 1 account) to the Evening Course Co-ordinator, Department of Sociology, Trinity College, Dublin 2. Phone: 01 896 2702

Application forms are available to download from (http://www.tcd.ie/sociology/ethnicracialstudies)

Course co-ordinator

Dr. Andrew Finlay

Fee

€175 for each course. Payment must accompany enrolment (asylum seekers free on application), payable to Trinity College no. 1 account.

Date, time and place

The course will be run twice.

Tuesdays, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m., in room 3071, Arts Building, Trinity College, Dublin 2. The first course begins on Tuesday, 9 October 2012 and ends on Tuesday, 11 December 2012. The second course begins on Tuesday, 15 January 2013 and ends on Tuesday, 19 March 2013.

Further information

Contact: Martina Byrne, email: byrnem19@tcd.ie, phone: 086 8207486