As a school of public policy, HKS plays a unique role in advancing knowledge about how policy has been historically influenced by race and how to address systemic racism. To educate the next generation of public leaders, HKS offers a range of courses and seminars

related to race, policy, and inequality.

As part of the required core curriculum, MPP students take DPI-385M:

Race

and Racism in the Making of the United States as a Global Power. Its

follow-up course, DPI-386M: Race

and Racism in Public Policies, Practices, and Perspectives, offers three sections

taught by different Kennedy School faculty members looking at race and racism

through different lenses:

• Exploring Institutions and Modes

  of Racial Domination. This module examines power and oppression in the

  contemporary American context.

• Justice, Advocacy, and You: Race

  and Crime as a Case Study. This module seeks to equip students with

  advocacy strategies to end systemic racism.

• International and Intersectional

  Approaches to Race and Racism. This module examines power and oppression in

  global context.

In another course, MLD-375: Creating

Justice in Real Time: Vision, Strategies and Campaigns, former NAACP

President and HKS Professor of Practice Cornell William Brooks teaches students

how to effectively undertake projects with municipal governments and grassroots

organizations that advocate for social justice. Students enrolled in the get

hands-on work in the field learning how organizations conduct advocacy work.

Curious what other classes on race, policy, and inequality

are offered at HKS? Take a look

during the 2022-23 academic year >>