The programme's faculty have backgrounds in social theory, literary and cultural studies, Geography and Anthropology. The programme draws upon resources from multiple disciplines to build a critical account of the origins and development of race-thinking as well as its enduring power. Though you may have been thinking about these issues already, the programme does not assume that you are already a specialist in these areas of scholarship. The curriculum emphasises the need for students to encounter a constellation of key concepts and to become familiar with the texts that have been foundational in the academic analysis of racism and racialisation. The evolving body of specialist work will be brought into contact with a range of examples drawn from different locations, periods and political struggles. They include Abolitionism, anti-colonial, civil and human rights movements all the way to #blacklivesmatter and related contemporary conflicts over racial inequality, racial hierarchy and social justice. You will examine the history of race and raciology and be introduced to a range of attempts to map and critically respond to varieties of racist argumentation: religious, scientific, culturalist, biopolitical and nationalistic. A historical perspective has been adopted in order to foster the acquisition of key concepts and a common critical vocabulary. You will be invited to grasp how race-thinking developed and varied in different locations, periods and disciplinary contexts. An extensive survey builds towards consideration of contemporary instances of racialised injustice and inequality. You will analyse the structural and institutional aspects of those social and political problems and see how they have been manifested in culture, politics and everyday life. The programme affords opportunities to look at the movements that have resisted racism, injustice and inequality, seeking rights and recognition.