Nova university programme criticised for only having white instructors and for some of its content, such as session on ‘does racism really exist?’
A top university in Lisbon has suspended plans to launch a postgraduate programme on racism and xenophobia after the course was criticised for hiring only white instructors.
“It’s absurd to have a ‘postgraduate course on racism and xenophobia’ coordinated entirely by white people and, so far, taught without a single non-white person,” Cardoso wrote on her organisation’s website. The Portuguese anti-racism platform Kilombo described it as “absolutely incomprehensible” that one wouldn’t question the absence of Black people when it comes to the teaching staff of a postgraduate course on racism.
Cardoso described the issue as being more deeply rooted than simply the programme, given that the government-backed Observatory on Racism and Xenophobia was also not being led by people from diverse backgrounds.
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