This course is an introduction to Ethnic Studies that highlights selected historical moments to explore the complexities of life in the United States. Analyzing the entangled histories of colonialism, slavery, imperialism, racism, disenfranchisement, and labor, we will examine how different peoples become "American." We will focus on the racialization of American Indians, African Americans, Chicanos and Latinos, and Asian Americans with regard to conceptions of identity and citizenship across multiple categories of difference including gender, class, ethnicity, and sexuality. We will delve specifically into the histories of the Bay Area’s communities of color, and study their stories of resistance, struggle, and triumph. This class is a seminar and will require a significant time commitment on your part to complete the required readings and writing assignments, as well as to prepare critical, informed contributions to each class’s discussion. Be certain that you are interested in engaging in intensive academic work around race, ethnicity, power and white privilege prior to enrollingCritical Ethnic Studies 2000-level seminars introduce students to the complexities and nuances of intersectionality, gender, disability, decolonial theory & philosophy, in imperialist and non-imperialist societies. 2000-level seminars may incorporate one or more of the following interdisciplinary fields of critical ethnic studies: Africana studies, African-American Studies, Asian American studies, Indigenous studies, Chicano/a /x, and Latino /a/x studies, border studies, cultural studies, critical disability studies, critical gender studies, and global racialized and global silenced communities. Courses can be in-person, hybrid, or online.

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