Race, Ethnicity and Identity (L6090)
30 credits, Level 6
Spring teaching
This module focuses on theories of race, ethnicity and identity. It applies diverse theoretical approaches to race, ethnicity and identity to historical and contemporary contexts.
As well as examining the way in which racial and ethnic identities have been constructed across time and space, the module interrogates these constructions with specific reference to:
- slavery, colonialism and the science of race
- visual culture and the gaze
- racial capitalism, structural violence and the state
- feminism and intersectionality
- whiteness and critical race theory
- migration and decolonial perspectives
- museum collections and the politics of representation
- mixed race identities; and necropolitics and precarity.
Other topics include:
- historical reflections on race: slavery, colonialism and the science of race
- race, visual culture and the gaze
- racial capitalism, structural violence and the state
- feminism, intersectionality and the politics of difference
- whiteness studies and critical race theory
- migration and decolonial perspectives
- museum collections and the politics of representation
- mixed race odentities
- necropolitics and COVID-19.