Main navigation
- Programs
- Subjects
- Universities
- Destinations
- Advice
Ethnic studies explores the interdisciplinary examination of how diverse communities have navigated, endured, and critically responded to America's nation-building efforts. Our focus includes analyzing racial dynamics, systemic discrimination, and institutionalized oppression through frameworks like territorial expansion, state-sanctioned racism, European and Spanish colonialism, American imperialism, institutionalized gender violence, racial extermination, plantation slavery, militarized gender roles, legal segregation systems, white dominance, and internalized patterns of racial/gender oppression.
We particularly emphasize the innovative historical contributions of activist movements, cultural expressions, policy reform efforts, indigenous knowledge systems, community building, and revolutionary ideologies.
Our work investigates how various forms of resistance, survival strategies, freedom movements, and transformative knowledge challenge oppressive structures while forging pathways for societal transformation.