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Altcurricula
Reading Group
We are excited to be working with Altcurricula - a monthly reading group exploring postcolonial and decolonial theory.
Group meetings have been moved online - All welcome!
To be kept updated with reading list, meetings, and times, email: altcurricula@gmail.com
If you have any questions about the upcoming sessions, feel free to contact them!
Next Session:
Museum Curation
11 June (Thursday of 7th week), 11 am
This session will take place electronically via Zoom
Email altcurricula@gmail.com for link and password.
Past Sessions
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Masculinity
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Pedagogy and Teaching as Postcolonial Practice
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Art
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Gender (part 1): femininity
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The Science of race
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Reparations
Reading Lists
Masculinity
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Toby L. Ditz, 'The New Men's History and the Peculiar Absence of Gendered Power: Some Remedies from Early American History', Gender & History, 16, (2004)
Available: academia.edu
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Frantz Fanon, 'Colonial War and Mental Disorders' in The Wretched of the Earth (1963), pp. 248-266
Available: http://abahlali.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Frantz-Fanon-The-Wretched-of-the-Earth-1965.pdf
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George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant
Available: https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/shooting-an-elephant/
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Michael Salter, The Problem With the Term 'Toxic Masculinity', The Atlantic (2019)
Available: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/02/toxic-masculinity-history/583411/
Masculinity
Museum Curation
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Code of Ethics for Museums (focus on the 8 principles, sections i-viii)
Available: https://icom.museum/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/ICOM-code-En-web.pdf
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Bénédicte Savoy, 'Plunder, restitution, emotion and the weight of archives
Available: https://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/handle/11303/5782
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Sumaya Kassim, 'There is no mutual fascination: why the British Museum's "Inspired by the East" is not inspired (at least, not to me, a heartbroken Muslim Middle Easterner
Available: http://lucywritersplatform.com/2020/02/07/there-is-no-mutual-fascination-why-the-british-museums-inspired-by-the-east-is-not-inspired-at-least-not-to-me-a-heartbroken-muslim-middle-easterner/
Museum Curation
Past Reading Lists
Pedagogy and Teaching as Postcolonial Practice
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Patricia Bizzel, 'Classroom Authority and Critical Pedagogy', American Literary History, (1991), pp. 847-863.
Available: http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=TN_jstor_archive_3489894&vid=SOLO&search_scope=LSCOP_ALL&tab=local&lang=en_US&context=PC
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Townes, E. M., Womanist Theology, (2003)
Available: https://ir.vanderbilt.edu/bitstream/handle/1803/8226/Townes-WomanistTheology.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
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Beverley Haun, 'From Praxis to Practice', in Cynthis Sugar's Home-Work (University of Ottowa Press, 2004)
Available: SOLO
Pedagogy and Teaching as Postcolonial Practice
Art
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Jean Fisher, 'The Other Story and the Past Imperfect', (2009)
Available: http://www.tate.org.uk/file/jean-fisher-other-story-and-past-imperfect/
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Taylor Renee Aldridge, 'Balck Bodies, White Cubes: The Problem with Contemporary Art's Appropriation of Race', (2016)
Available: ARTnews
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Niama Safia Sandy and OkayAfrica, 'Taking Back Our History: Understanding African Art Reparation', (2018)
Available: OkayAfrica
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Lubaina Himdi interviewed in It's Nice That
Available: It's Nice That
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Rasheed Araeen, 'The Success and Failure of Black Art', (2004)
Available: SOLO
Art
Femininity
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Oyěwùmí, Oyèrónkẹ́, The Invention of Women (1997), chapter 4 ‘Colonising Bodies and Minds’
Available: SOLO
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Enuma Okoro, ‘Blackness and Beauty’ (Aeon, 10 October 2019)
Available: https://aeon.co/essays/how-we-think-about-beauty-and-blackness-can-save-lives
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Peiling Zhao, ‘Coping with National Shame through Chinese Women’s Bodies: Glorified or Mortified?’ in Johnson and Moran (eds), The Female Face of Shame (2013)
Available: SOLO
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Podcast, Feminism in Black and White from Scene on Radio’s ‘Men’ series
Available: http://www.sceneonradio.org/episode-50-feminism-in-black-and-white-men-part-4/
Femininity
The Science of Race
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Podcast, 'Seeing White' ep.2 (Centre for Media Studies, Duke University)
Available:http://www.sceneonradio.org/episode-32-how-race-was-made-seeing-white-part-2/
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Podcast, 'Race: Can we see it in our DNA?' (Science vs.)
Available:https://gimletmedia.com/shows/science-vs/6nhgxk
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The Guardian, 'Users of home DNA tests "cherry pick" results based on race biases'
Available: The Guardian
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CBC News, 'Heredity or hoax?'
Available: https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/dna-ancestry-test
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Reading list on race of the previous year
Available: docs.google
The Science of Race
Reparations
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Roy Brooks, Atonement and Forgiveness: A New Model for Black Reparations (University of Chicago Press 2019), chapter 1
Available: https://content.ucpress.edu/chapters/10094.ch01.pdf
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Colleen Duggan and Adila M. Abusharaf, ‘Reparation of Sexual Violence in Democratic Transitions: The Search for Gender Justice’ in The Oxford Handbook of Reparations (2006)
Available: https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/0199291926.001.0001/acprof-9780199291922-chapter-19
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Jemima Pierre, ‘Reconciliation is not Decolonisation’
Availabla: https://www.blackagendareport.com/content/reconciliation-not-decolonization
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Elazar Barkan, The Guilt of Nations (JHU Press 2001), chapter 8
Available: only through the Bodleian library in hard copy
Reparations
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