Birkbeck, University of London (MA (Hons)) Culture, Diaspora, Ethnicity

Culture, Diaspora, Ethnicity

The course examines connections between intertwined colonial histories and our ordinary, local everyday life. We focus on a broad range of subjects such as modern colonial statecraft, forms of colonial labour, racial typology and other systems of categorisation; colonial cultures and nationalisms; histories of anticolonial, antifascist and antiracist resistance, criminalisation and policing; theorising culture, community and postcolonial belonging; contemporary racial nationalisms and religious authoritarian movements and race, gender and sexuality.

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Birkbeck is a global centre for research and teaching on ‘race’ and racism. We are home to multidisciplinary communities of scholars and students, academic programmes and research centres committed to the study of this subject area.

This innovative interdisciplinary course stretches across the arts and humanities and social sciences. It offers the opportunity to explore:

– histories and cartographies of ‘race’ and racism; multiculture and postcoloniality; empire and the formation of modern Britain and contemporary, transnational political communities, social identities and urban cultures
– connections between histories of colonisation and contemporary social formations and inequalities
– how local debates on ‘race’ and racism are shaped by the global geopolitics of the twenty-first century.

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You may incur additional costs in the course of your education at the university over and above tuition fees in an academic year such as laptops, stationary and additional resources.

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