Critical Philosophy of Race

Course content

This course focuses on contemporary issues around the critical philosophy of race. Topics include phenomenology of race, freedom, security, and nationalism, colonialism, coloniality of power, and pseudo-sciences of the races, racialism in the history of philosophy, whiteness studies, intersectionality. The course aims to unpack the processses of racialization through a genealogical inquiry and explore the historical conditions of possibility that ground contemporary problems surrounding race and racism.