A revolutionary program designed to inject equity, principle and integrity into higher education has been launched by Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman, Britain’s first and only Research Associate in the Philosophy of ‘Race’, in the Department of Philosophy, at University College London.
Dismantling The Master’s House, launched on the 12 December 2014 is described as “a community of academics, administrative staff and students at UCL, committed to righting racialised wrongs in our workplace and in the wider world.”
Intending to include a Masters (MA) level program on White Power it acknowledges owing – “the phrase ‘The Master’s House’ to Audre Lorde and we understand The Master’s House to consist in an intersection of power structures, in, as bell hooks puts it, Imperialist White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy. Central to this analysis is how these different manifestations of domination are accumulated to construct Whiteness – which has been and continues to be the primary vehicle of domination for the British Empire, and its legacies. Through scholarly comment, public events, and social media, #DTMH interrogates both Whiteness and Anglocentrism in the academy, while presenting alternatives from among the diversity of voices which make up UCL, London, and the globe.”
Speaking on the proposed MA studies in White Power program, DPhil student, Adam Elliott-Cooper writes “As London (as well as Britain), sees its demographics change, to better-represent the peoples colonised by the British Empire—African, Asian, and African Caribbean people in particular—it is more urgent than ever that we equip ourselves with radical and critical intellectual tools, to uncover the ways in which [unjust] hierarchies are indeed racialised and to understand how and why these racialised hierarchies endure.
We need to identify, analyse, and evaluate the intellectual roots of unjust racialised hierarchies, by attending to the way in which they intersect with gendered, classed, sexualised, ability-based, and belief-based structures of power, by attending to the way in which they flout traditional academic disciplinary boundaries, and by attending to the way in which they are inextricably bound up with Empire and its legacies. Empire is and must be our point of departure.”
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Dismantling The Master’s House, launched on the 12 December 2014 is described as “a community of academics, administrative staff and students at UCL, committed to righting racialised wrongs in our workplace and in the wider world.”
Intending to include a Masters (MA) level program on White Power it acknowledges owing – “the phrase ‘The Master’s House’ to Audre Lorde and we understand The Master’s House to consist in an intersection of power structures, in, as bell hooks puts it, Imperialist White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy. Central to this analysis is how these different manifestations of domination are accumulated to construct Whiteness – which has been and continues to be the primary vehicle of domination for the British Empire, and its legacies. Through scholarly comment, public events, and social media, #DTMH interrogates both Whiteness and Anglocentrism in the academy, while presenting alternatives from among the diversity of voices which make up UCL, London, and the globe.”
Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman
MA in White Power
Speaking on the proposed MA studies in White Power program, DPhil student, Adam Elliott-Cooper writes “As London (as well as Britain), sees its demographics change, to better-represent the peoples colonised by the British Empire—African, Asian, and African Caribbean people in particular—it is more urgent than ever that we equip ourselves with radical and critical intellectual tools, to uncover the ways in which [unjust] hierarchies are indeed racialised and to understand how and why these racialised hierarchies endure.We need to identify, analyse, and evaluate the intellectual roots of unjust racialised hierarchies, by attending to the way in which they intersect with gendered, classed, sexualised, ability-based, and belief-based structures of power, by attending to the way in which they flout traditional academic disciplinary boundaries, and by attending to the way in which they are inextricably bound up with Empire and its legacies. Empire is and must be our point of departure.”
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