Teaching on race and racism

Birkbeck offers a number of undergraduate and postgraduate modules primarily focused on critical race studies, racism and racialisation. These are taught across the School of Historical Studies and the School of Social Sciences.

There are also many other modules offered across the schools which include this as one of the themes, so please do contact the module convenor if you need more information about a module.

Undergraduate modules

• Britannia's Embrace: The British Empire and the World, Level 5 - School of Historical Studies
• Critical Race Studies: Understanding Asian and Black Experiences in Britain, Level 5 - School of Social Sciences
• Crossing Borders: Passports, Borders and the Sea, 1600 to Today, Level 5 - School of Historical Studies
• Gender, Race and Class in the Global Political Economy, Level 5 - School of Social Sciences
• Race, Environment and International Development, Level 6 - School of Social Sciences
• Racism and Antisemitism, Level 6 - School of Social Sciences
• The Colonial Gaze: Western Perceptions of Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 1600-1960, Level 6 - School of Historical Studies
• The Politics of Race and Diaspora, Level 6 - School of Social Sciences

POSTGRADUATE MODULES

• 'Race', Empire, Postcoloniality - School of Social Sciences
• Africa Imagined: Visions of a Continent, 1600-2000 - School of Historical Studies
• Anti-Semitism, Holocaust, Colonialism, Gender: Connecting the Conversation - School of Historical Studies
• Culture, Community, Identity - School of Social Sciences
• Race, Environment and International Development, Level 7 - School of Social Sciences
• The Politics of Race and Diaspora, Level 7 - School of Social Sciences

POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMME

• MA Culture, Diaspora, Ethnicity

EVENTS, SERIES AND READING GROUPS

• Race Forum
• Minorities and Philosophy: Birkbeck Chapter. For more information, please email the Birkbeck group for Minorities and Philosophy.