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.

The course is open to all participants, but is specifically suited to public sector and NGO (non-governmental organisation) employees.

Topics Include

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

Course Co-ordinator

Professor Andrew Finlay

How to apply

Register in advance by sending your name, correspondence address and cheque/draft/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: 086 8207486

Application forms are available to download from http://www.tcd.ie/sociology/ethnicracialstudies/about/modules/evening-course.php..

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, 8 October 2013 and ends on Tuesday, 10 December 2013. The second course begins on Tuesday, 21 January 2014 and ends on Tuesday, 25 March 2014.

Further Information

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