Department of Ethnic Studies

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The Department Office location is on the 4th Floor of the Meiklejohn Hall building, Room 4098

Office Hours: M - F, 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Dept Phone: (510) 885-3255

Faculty

Professors

Nicholas Baham, III, Ph.D. Indiana University, Bloomington

Luz Calvo (Chair), Ph.D. University of California, Santa Cruz

Enrique Salmon, Ph.D. Arizona State University

Carlos Salomon, Ph.D. University of New Mexico

Assistant Professor

Anndretta Wilson, Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles 

Mission Statement

The mission of the Department of Ethnic Studies is to provide an academically rigorous program that substantively contributes to the University’s public commitment to provide a multicultural learning experience. Our comparative and interdisciplinary program covers five core areas: Black Studies; American Indian Studies; Asian American Studies; Chicanx and Latinx Studies; and Gender/Sexualities in Communities of Color. In our courses, we teach students to analyze social relations of race, class, gender, and sexuality; develop nuanced understandings of social justice; and act as socially responsible global citizens.

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Programs

• Ethnic Studies, B.A.: American Indian Studies Concentration
• Ethnic Studies, B.A.: Asian American Studies Concentration
• Ethnic Studies, B.A.: Black Studies Concentration
• Ethnic Studies, B.A.: Chicanx and Latinx Studies Concentration

• Ethnic Studies, B.A.: Comparative Ethnic Studies Concentration (Online)
• Ethnic Studies, B.A.: Genders and Sexualities in Communities of Color Concentration (Online)

• American Indian Studies Minor
• Asian American Studies Minor
• Black Studies Minor
• Chicanx and Latinx Studies Minor
• Genders and Sexualities in Communities of Color Minor

Courses

• ES 100 - Introduction to Social Justice in Communities of Color
• ES 120 - The People’s History I
• ES 121 - The People’s History II
• ES 200 - Race and Resistance
• ES 244 - Mixed Race Identities in the US
• ES 247 - Hip Hop Nation
• ES 300 - Writing for Social Justice
• ES 302 - Eating The Landscape
• ES 308 - Cultures of Habitat
• ES 322 - Oral Traditions
• ES 326 - Peoples of Central America
• ES 389 - Engaging Communities of Color
• ES 398 - Internship
• ES 490 - Independent Study
• ES 497 - Issues in Ethnic Studies
• ES 498 - Internship

• ES 122 - The Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in Black America
• ES 245 - Black Flix
• ES 301 - Black Feminisms
• ES 340 - Black Literature
• ES 341 - Enslavement and Resistance in the Americas
• ES 342 - James Baldwin
• ES 343 - Black Power
• ES 344 - Malcolm X: Third World Revolutionary
• ES 345 - Jazz Cultures and Communities
• ES 346 - Afrofuturism
• ES 347 - Black Sexualities

• ES 303 - Debates in Contemporary Native America
• ES 304 - American Indian Oral Literature
• ES 305 - Reel Injun: American Indians in Film
• ES 306 - American Indian Liberation
• ES 307 - God is Red: American Indian Worldview

• ES 360 - Asian American Intimacies and Families
• ES 361 - Asian Immigrant and Refugee Women in Literature and Cinema
• ES 362 - Concentration Camps, USA
• ES 363 - Asian American & Pacific Islander Film Festival
• ES 364 - Asian American & Pacific Islander Communities
• ES 365 - Asian American and Pacific Islander Environmental Voices

• ES 380 - Queer of Color Histories, Cultures, and Identities
• ES 381 - Racialized Masculinities
• ES 382 - Women of Color Writers: Race, Sex, and Resistance
• ES 384 - Interracial Sex and Marriage

• ES 320 - The Chicano/a Movement
• ES 321 - Latinas in the US
• ES 323 - Latinx and Latin American Film
• ES 324 - Latin American Immigration
• ES 325 - Cultural Production in Mexico and Mesoamerica
• ES 327 - Decolonize Your Diet

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