Humanities + Sciences: Critical Ethnic Studies
About
Horse Tuuxi (HOR-shay TOO-hee)
The Chochenyo are the indigenous Ohlone people of Oakland. "Horse Tuuxi" means good day in the Chochenyo language. The Ramaytush are the indigenous people of San Francisco. "Hershe Tuhe" (HER-Sha TOO-hee) means good day in the Ramaytush language.
We want to acknowledge that we gather as California College of the Arts on the traditional lands of the Ohlones peoples past, present, and future. This includes the Muwekma, Esselen and the Amah-Mutsun. We honor with gratitude the land itself and the peoples who have stewarded it through the generations and will continue to. We want to acknowledge the land where we sit was stolen from indigenous communities by colonial structures who committed genocide upon the people and the land. This calls us to commit to continuing to learn how to be better stewards of the land we inhabit as well.
NOW OFFERING: Critical Ethnic Studies Minor!
The Critical Ethnic Studies minor prepares artists, designers, and change makers to identify, frame, and analyze societal issues related to power and privilege, restorative justice, and radical social transformation. Students utilize interdisciplinary methods to examine how social problems fueled by modernity intersect with cultural and artistic productions of resistance and radical knowledge production. Students are expected to draw upon what they know and understand to generate new questions, new knowledge, new understandings and pose art and design-based solutions to those problems that center advocacy, engagement, and action.
If you are interested in the CES minor, you can read more about the minor and its course requirements here.
Critical Ethnic Studies Stands in Solidarity with Black Lives Matter
The Critical Ethnic Studies statement on Black Lives Matter took shape as national attention focused on police violence against Black Americans following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. It was written in response to those events and sentiments of spring and summer 2020 by Rickey Vincent with other Critical Ethnic Studies faculty.
Celebrating 50 Years of Critical Ethnic Studies at CCA!
2020 marks the 50th anniversary of CCA’s Critical Ethnic Studies program, which is the only dedicated program of its kind at an arts and design college in the United States. To acknowledge this milestone, we will be looking back at the complex history of this vital program and diversity at the college.
Current and past Critical Ethnic Studies faculty will joined by community members active during those foundational years to tell stories and have critical conversations about our institution’s history. We will also be celebrating the program as it exists today by showcasing student work and its lasting impact.
Featured Blog Posts
Getting Out the Vote: The 2020 US Presidential Election Awareness Project
Professor Steve Jones reflects on his Critical Ethnic Studies course Agitprop: Issues and Causes in acknowledgement of the Program's 50th anniversary!
"I’ve been teaching the Agitprop: Issues and Causes class since the fall of 2018. Every semester started off with a fun exercise - a take on the Donald Trump fueled phrase, “Make America Great Again” (MAGA). The phrase, like the man, has been one of great division—it assumes that the current (more open, inclusive, browner) state of America represents one of decline..."
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Critical Ethnic Studies welcomes you to fall 2020!!! This is going to be a great year! #letsdothis #blacklivesmatter
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Shylah Pacheco Hamilton
Chair, Critical Ethnic Studies Program
Associate Professor, Critical Ethnic Studies Program
Rene Bruckner
Assistant Director of Academic Administration, Humanities & Sciences, Academic Affairs
Kris McGhee
Project Manager, Humanities & Sciences Division, Academic Affairs
Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik
Adjunct II Professor, Graduate Design Program
Guillermo Galindo
Senior Adjunct Professor, Critical Ethnic Studies Program
Vreni Michelini Castillo
Senior Adjunct, Critical Ethnic Studies Program
Senior Adjunct Professor, Critical Ethnic Studies Program
Lydia Nakashima Degarrod
Senior Adjunct, Critical Studies Program
Trina Robinson
Adjunct I Professor, Critical Ethnic Studies Program
Mentored Teaching Fellow, Photography Program
Juan Carlos Rodriguez Rivera
Assistant Professor, Graphic Design Program