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ETHN 201: Introduction to Ethnic Studies

Ethnic Studies · 5 credits

This course offers an introduction to the historical foundations of ethnic studies and the field’s core theoretical concepts including racialization, racial capitalism, intersectionality, relationality, settler colonialism, borders, and abolition. This class focuses on the histories of structural and systemic oppressions including racism, classism, white privilege, discrimination, slavery and other forms of unfree labor, and policing and surveillance. Throughout each topic, the role of resistance is centered through the critique of power and the methods of dismantling it.

Offered in 9 of the 26 listed terms (Fall 2024 to Spring 2027).

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Prerequisites

None that Banner enforces.

From Banner's catalog for Spring 2027. Banner lists only the requisites it enforces, so check the catalog entry too.

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ETHN 301, ETHN 302, ETHN 310, ETHN 314, ETHN 315, ETHN 316, ETHN 317, ETHN 318, ETHN 319, ETHN 321, FAIR 472A

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