Race and Resistance Studies
College of Ethnic Studies
Dean: Kenneth Monteiro
Race and Resistance Studies Program
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Director: Jason Ferreira
Faculty
Associate Professors: Abdulhadi, Bakrania, Esquibel, Ferreira, Sueyoshi
Programs
Minor in Race and Resistance Studies
Program Scope
The Race and Resistance Studies minor is an interdisciplinary program that provides undergraduate students with an approach to social justice to study race as a politically produced and contested process that begins with institutions, movements, and social problems, to examine racialized communities. The curriculum examines how race, gender, class and are co-constitutive factors of identity; how different groups are racialized in relation to one another; how social justice movements cohere and fall apart; and how groups have formed their own identities. The Race and Resistance Studies minor provides students with non-traditional, multi-ethnic, and comparative perspectives on national and transnational experiences of people of color within the U.S.
Minor in Race and Resistance Studies
The minor consists of 19 to 21 credits of undergraduate study. Only one third of the credits or no more than approximately two courses can be taken credit/no credit for the minor. Students must have maintained at least a 2.0 grade point average in minor courses. Consistent with current University policy, courses for meeting the requirements of this minor may, as appropriate, be used simultaneously for meeting general education or credential requirements. Written declaration of the pursuit of the minor is not necessary prior to enrollment in any of its required or elective courses. Students should try to complete ETHS 100 or ETHS 110 before taking any further courses in the minor. These courses, however, may be taken concurrently. At least half of all courses towards the minor degree must be upper division at the 300 level or above. Mandatory courses are one introductory course, either ETHS 100 or ETHS 110; one course each in three of the core areas –History and Politics of Racialized People; Race and Popular Culture, Literature and the Arts; Race, Gender and Sexuality; Diasporas and Transnationalism; or from any core area added in the future. In addition, two courses are to be selected from the Ethnic Specific and Community Service Learning section, from two different departments or programs: One chosen from any ethnic-specific department or program in the College; the other from any of the CSL courses offered in the College or as 1 to 2 CSL units paired with any course taken concurrently towards the Race and Resistance Studies minor, upon advisement of the instructor. The remaining three credits needed for the minor can be fulfilled through the elective courses. Students can choose their elective courses from 1) any introductory course not already counting towards the minor degree, 2) any core courses not already counting towards the minor degree, 3) an additional course from one of the ethnic-specific departments or programs in the College, or 4) any course from the list of recommended elective courses. Additional courses may count towards the minor upon consultation with the Race and Resistance Studies undergraduate minor advisor. The curriculum is outlined below.
Race and Resistance Studies, Minor — 19 - 21 units
Courses are 3 units unless otherwise indicated.
Introductory Courses (3 units)
Choose one from below.
- ETHS 100/ Introduction to Ethnic Studies
- RRS 100 Introduction to Ethnic Studies
- ETHS 110/ Critical Thinking and the Ethnic Studies Experience
- RRS 110 Critical Thinking and the Ethnic Studies Experience
Core Courses (9 units)
Choose three of the Sections A through D.
Section A: History and Politics
Choose one from below.
- RRS 240 All Power to the People: Comparative Freedom Movements of the "Sixties"
- RRS 250 Race and Ethnicity and Power in America
- RRS 350 Race, Labor, and Class
- RRS 410/ Grassroots Organizing for Change in Communities of Color
- SOC 410 Grassroots Organizing for Change in Communities of Color
- RRS 435 National Security and the Racialization of Arabs and Muslims in North America
- RRS 520 Race, Radicalism, and Revolution
- RRS 600/ History of People of Color in the U.S.
- HIST 466 History of People of Color in the U.S.
Section B: Popular Culture, Literature, and the Arts
Choose one from below.
- RRS 280 Race, Gender, and Science Fiction
- RRS 285 Race, Sports, and Society
- RRS 360 Cultural Dialogues and Ethnic Literature
- RRS 430 Arab Media Images in America: Impact on Arab Americans
- RRS 450/ Contemporary Arabic and Arab American Literature
- ARAB 450 Contemporary Arabic and Arab American Literature
- RRS 480 Youth Culture, Race and Resistance
Section C: Gender and Sexuality
Choose one from below.
- RRS 380/ Coloring Queer: Imagining Communities
- SXS 380 Coloring Queer: Imagining Communities
- RRS 571 Women, Race, and Class
Section D: Diasporas and Transnationalism
Choose one from below.
- RRS 370 Islamophobia: Roots, Development, and Contestation of Hatred
- RRS 420 Arab American Identity: Memory and Resistance
- RRS 630 Palestine: Ethnic Studies Perspective
- RRS 657 South Asian Diaspora
- WGS 566/ Gender and Modernity in the Muslim and Arab Worlds
- RRS 566 Gender and Modernity in Arab and Muslim Communities
Community Service Learning
Choose one from below or as 1 to 3 CSL units attached to any course listed in the minor.
- AAS 591 Asian American Community Health Issues
- AFRS 694 Community Service Learning (1-3)
- AIS 694 Community Service Learning (1-3)
- LTNS 694 Community Service Learning (1-3)
Any Ethnic Specific Course from AA S, AFRS, AIS, or LTNS (Choose one on advisement, from a different department than the one used to fulfill the CSL requirement.)
Elective Courses
Choose one from below or any course from above, including from the ethnic-specific departments or programs, not used to satisfy basic requirements.
- COUN 450/ AIDS and People of Color in the U.S.
- RRS 460 AIDS and People of Color in the U.S.
- ENG 637/ Experimental Novel: 1950 - 1980
- ETHS 637 Experimental Novel: 1950 - 1980
- ETHS 590 Ethnic Studies Travel Study (1)
- ETHS 685 Projects in the Teaching of Ethnic Studies
- ETHS 697 Field Research or Internship in Ethnic Studies (1-3)
- ETHS 699 Independent Study (1-3)
- HIST 473/ Unfree Labor in Early America
- ETHS 473 Unfree Labor in Early America
- PLSI 466/ Race and American Democracy
- ETHS 466 Race and American Democracy
- RRS 330/ Comparative Race and Ethnicity in the U.S.: Class, Gender, and Nation
- SOC 330 Comparative Race and Ethnicity in the U.S.: Class, Gender, and Nation
- RRS 580/ Educational Equity
- LTNS 580/ Educational Equity
- SOC 580 Educational Equity
- RRS 625 Mixed Race Studies: A Comparative Focus
- RRS 670/ Making Whites: Race-making in America
- HIST 462 Making Whites: Race-making in America
