Culture, Diaspora, Ethnicity (MA) 12 months Postgraduate Programme By Birkbeck, University of London |TopUniversities
Programme Duration

12 monthsProgramme duration

Main Subject Area

Ethnicity, Gender and DiversityMain Subject Area

Programme overview

Main Subject

Ethnicity, Gender and Diversity

Degree

MA

Study Level

Masters

Birkbeck’s MA Culture, Diaspora, Ethnicity stretches across the social sciences and arts and humanities and explores: debates on '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 in the UK; how local debates on 'race' and racism are shaped by the global geopolitics of the twenty-first century. The programme explores connections between interlocking colonial histories across the globe and our ordinary, local, everyday life here in contemporary Britain. It focuses on a broad range of subjects such as histories of colonisation, systems of slavery, indenture and other forms of colonial labour, the concept of 'race' and the invention of 'the West'; colonial cultures, nationalisms, 'respectability' and the invention of 'whiteness';  histories of criminalisation; histories of anti-racist and anti-fascist resistance; theorising culture, community, hybridity and creolisation; postcolonial belonging, place, urban cultures and diaspora; 'race' and 'beauty'; contemporary racial nationalisms and  religious authoritarian movements; 'The War on Terror'; 'whiteness' and 'race', gender, sexuality and desire.

Programme overview

Main Subject

Ethnicity, Gender and Diversity

Degree

MA

Study Level

Masters

Birkbeck’s MA Culture, Diaspora, Ethnicity stretches across the social sciences and arts and humanities and explores: debates on '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 in the UK; how local debates on 'race' and racism are shaped by the global geopolitics of the twenty-first century. The programme explores connections between interlocking colonial histories across the globe and our ordinary, local, everyday life here in contemporary Britain. It focuses on a broad range of subjects such as histories of colonisation, systems of slavery, indenture and other forms of colonial labour, the concept of 'race' and the invention of 'the West'; colonial cultures, nationalisms, 'respectability' and the invention of 'whiteness';  histories of criminalisation; histories of anti-racist and anti-fascist resistance; theorising culture, community, hybridity and creolisation; postcolonial belonging, place, urban cultures and diaspora; 'race' and 'beauty'; contemporary racial nationalisms and  religious authoritarian movements; 'The War on Terror'; 'whiteness' and 'race', gender, sexuality and desire.

Admission Requirements

6+
2+

Jan-2000

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