Culture, Diaspora, Ethnicity

Overview

This interdisciplinary Culture, Diaspora, Ethnicity programme at Birkbeck, University of London stretches across the social sciences and arts and humanities and explores: 

• histories and cartographies of '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.

Careers and Employability

Graduates include youth and community workers and workers for organisations and charities whose concerns include criminalisation and policing, domestic violence, refugees and asylum, human rights, homelessness, imprisonment and addiction. They also include barristers and solicitors, psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and psychiatrists, lecturers and social researchers in the areas of sociology, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, urban studies and social policy, teachers, film-makers, activists, curators, architects, novelists, poets, musicians, journalists and those working in the arts and cultural industries.