Race and Resistance Studies

Race and Resistance Studies (RRS) examines both the race-related processes that underlie many social problems and the multiple forms of resistance and struggle aimed at achieving racial social justice. Our analytical approach is comparative, relational, interdisciplinary, and intersectional. The program will 1) provide majors with a solid understanding of key theories and approaches through a set of core courses required of all students, 2) provide all students with an overview of key areas of concern, including histories of resistance, gender issues, transnational issues, and cultural production, 3) Allow students to choose electives emphasizing particular areas of interest, and 4) develop students' abilities to work in community organizations.

1. Identify the history, objectives, and philosophies of Ethnic Studies/Race and Resistance Studies.
2. Describe historical, cultural, economic, and comparative approaches to the study of race, class, gender, nation, and sexuality.
3. Interpret cultural production by people of color and the ways that various forms of culture (literature, dance, murals, etc.) express agency of oppressed peoples and/or challenge social inequalities.
4. Apply the concept of intersectionality to the analysis of gender-oppressed people of color, such as women of color, queers of color, and transgender people of color.
5. Analyze social movements in the contestation of social hierarchies based on race, gender, sexuality, class, and/or other social determinants.
6. Apply principles of community-engaged scholarship and community service learning.

Shehaadat al-thaanawiya al-'aama | General Certificate of Secondary Education