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About this degree
The Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies MA programme will equip you with a range of critical, theoretical and methodological tools. You will be encouraged and enabled to unpack and interpret these fields of conflict, as well as to deepen your understanding of contemporary debates about racial hierarchy and inequality and their associations with other dimensions of power and conflict.
It provides you with a cutting-edge perspective on contemporary approaches to the politics of race and racism. It will introduce you to the knowledge, skills and methods that will enable you to develop your own specialised interests in this field both academically and professionally.
Who this course is for
This programme is suitable for students with a first degree in the humanities, social, political and historical sciences or relevant discipline, who wish to explore the politics, history and ethics of race, racism, social justice and post-coloniality.
What this course will give you
The programme benefits from teaching staff with backgrounds in social theory, literary and cultural studies, Geography and Anthropology, and draws upon resources from multiple disciplines to build a critical account of the origins and development of race-thinking, as well as its enduring power.
Though you may have been thinking about these issues already, the programme does not assume that you are already a specialist in these areas of scholarship. The curriculum emphasises the need for students to encounter a constellation of key concepts and to become familiar with the texts that have been foundational in the academic analysis of racism and racialisation.
You will be brought into contact with a range of examples drawn from different locations, periods and political struggles throughout history. They include Abolitionism, anti-colonial, civil and human rights movements all the way to Black Lives Matter and related contemporary conflicts over racial inequality, racial hierarchy and social justice. You will examine the history of race and raciology and be introduced to a range of attempts to map and critically respond to varieties of racist argumentation: religious, scientific, culturalist, biopolitical and nationalistic. You will be invited to grasp how race-thinking has developed and varied in different locations, periods and disciplinary contexts.
An extensive survey builds towards consideration of contemporary instances of racialised injustice and inequality. You will analyse the structural and institutional aspects of those social and political problems and see how they have been manifested in culture, politics and everyday life.
The programme affords opportunities to look at the movements that have resisted racism, injustice and inequality, seeking rights and recognition.