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Ethnic studies, in the United States, is the interdisciplinary study of difference—chiefly race, ethnicity, and nation, but also sexuality, gender, and other such markings—and power, as expressed by the state, by civil society, and by individuals.
The political uproar over diversity studies is clouding the reality that few four-year institutions offer a major in Latino or other ethnic studies.
Latino studies is an academic discipline which studies the experience of people of Latin American ancestry in the United States. Closely related to other ethnic studies disciplines such as African-American studies, Asian American studies, and Native American studies, Latino studies critically examines the history, culture, politics, issues, sociology, spirituality (Indigenous) and experiences ...
Native American studies (also known as American Indian, Indigenous American, Aboriginal, Native, or First Nations studies) is an interdisciplinary academic field that examines the history, culture, politics, issues, spirituality, sociology and contemporary experience of Native peoples in North America, [1] or, taking a hemispheric approach, the Americas. [2]
Dec. 25—Cal State Bakersfield opened in 1970, just one year after the first School of Ethnic Studies was created at San Francisco State. When the university held its first classes, it offered ...
Nov. 27—AUSTIN — The Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) voted to adopt instructional materials in response to Proclamation 2024 and explored adding a first-of-its-kind ethnic studies course ...
The 1980s saw more Chicano studies programs integrated into institutions of higher learning while it also created a "canonical approach" to its studies and "gatekeeping procedures" to evaluate promotions and tenure. [21] In addition, Chicano studies programs helped universities and colleges fulfill affirmative action requirements. [14]
Two alums who fought for ethnic studies as student protesters in the 1960s have donated $10 million to the UCLA Institute of American Culture, the largest such gift, to endow posts in Asian ...