Students in the Gender, Race, and Identity major with the specialization in Ethnic Studies study race, ethnicity, and Indigeneity in historical and contemporary contexts and global and local settings. The major is grounded in an intersectional perspective, attending to the interrelationship of race, ethnicity, and Indigeneity with other forms of identity, difference, and power that include gender, sexuality, class, citizenship, nationality, religion, ability status, and other categories. Our course program critically analyzes the construction of racial, ethnic, and Indigenous identities and communities in global and local contexts, examines racism and antiracism, and addresses key theories in studies of race, ethnicity, and Indigeneity. The Gender, Race, and Identity major with a specialization in Ethnic Studies provides an expressly interdisciplinary environment for learning, drawing widely on academic traditions in the social sciences and the humanities. Students gain tools to critically analyze and engage our world and to enact change in their communities and professions.
Students will be able to:
define and describe issues of race, ethnicity, and Indigeneity, with attention to their intersections with other forms of identity, difference, and power including gender, sexuality, class, and other categories.
critically compare and distinguish among historical and theoretical understandings of race, ethnicity, and Indigeneity and among experiences of peoples of color, racisms, and antiracisms in relation to structural inequality, social movements, and state power.
integrate and demonstrate comprehension of course content through oral presentations and critical, creative, and expository writing appropriate to audience.
analyze multiple dimensions of race, ethnicity, and Indigeneity from an interdisciplinary perspective, using a range of appropriate methodological tools.
integrate academic studies in the field of Ethnic Studies into personal and professional goals and be able to formulate and implement theoretically informed political, cultural, and community action.
