Race and Racism

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

It is now accepted that race is a social construct rather than a meaningful scientific category yet racism remains one of the most serious societal challenges in Ireland and globally. This module will provide students with the theoretical and conceptual tools to critically examine racism as a form of structural and systemic oppression and to interrogate the uses to which race and other racialised concepts have been put in shaping and maintaining unequal social relations, historically and in contemporary societies. Students will examine the intersection of racism with other forms of oppression and will look critically at approaches utilised in anti-racist activism and organising. Throughout the module students will engage with critical theories and empirical research on race, racism and anti-racism. By the end of the module students will have developed their understanding of the causes, consequences and possible solutions to racism.