Studying a racist module, this shit is so exhausting
You guys gotta help me.
I study Law / Politics, for my Politics module next year I have to do International Relations. The first semester is SO BAD.
I have looked over the readings, it is just so scarily white-centric and western-centric.
In past modules I have gotten away with doing my own readings (of course not at all included on the course) that provided information in a non-racist or even anti-racist way (for example consulting critical studies journals) but this semester we have to focus on the readings assigned and I am already so exhausted.
It’s difficult to explain but rest assured the entire field of IR is just so Eurocentric and frankly racist. It places white people and western countries at the forefront and everyone else at the periphery. The whole field views the deaths of millions of Black and brown people as mere collateral, but even a singular white person is considered to be all important. All the main theorists you’re expected to know are white, most of them are virulently racist.
I don’t want to believe that I’m just uniquely weak as fuck. It’s just so hard being forced to read all this stupid untrue shit and swallow it uncritically.