Race and racism – a postcolonial perspective
Linnaeus University (Kalmar Växjö)
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Race and racism – a postcolonial perspective
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Code: 4AE451
How has the tension of politics and research, from the Enlightenment until today changed the modern concept of ‘race’? This course focuses on its origin and discusses race as a symbolic system, as a foundation for identification, and in how it continues to cause political tension, violence and inequality in the present postcolonial world.
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1-90 credits including an independent project of 15 credits in a subject in the humanities or the social sciences or the equivalent, English B/English 6, or the equivalent.
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