"The interdisciplinary study of difference—chiefly race, ethnicity, and nation, but also sexuality, gender, and other such markings—and power."
The comparative study of experiences and contributions of various ethnic groups in the United States and other countries around the world.
Race and Racism: Race and its impact on society, including how it is constructed, perpetuated and justified.
Intersectionality: The interconnectedness of different forms of oppression based on gender, sexuality, class, and other factors.
Colonialism and Decolonization: The impact of colonialism on indigenous and colonized peoples, and the process of decolonization.
Identity and Culture: The relationship between identity and culture, including how it is shaped by ethnicity, nationality, and language.
Globalization and Migration: The movement of people and cultures across borders, and its impact on national identity and cultural relations.
Social Inequality and Justice: The influence of social and economic inequality on the formation and perpetuation of unjust practices.
Historical Memory: The impact of historical events and processes on the collective memory of ethnic groups.
Critical Theory: The theoretical framework that underpins critical thinking and analysis in comparative ethnic studies.
Feminism and Gender Studies: The intersection of gender and ethnicity, and the role of feminism in comparative ethnic studies.
Media and Representation: The portrayal of ethnic groups in media, and the impact of media on cultural identity.
"Race, ethnicity, and nation, but also sexuality, gender, and other such markings."
"The promotion of English-language texts and their authors as representative, considering a piece of cultural material as unhyphenated and archetypal only when authors meet certain demographic criteria."
"It focuses on the history of people of different minority ethnicity in the United States, aiming to re-frame the way that specific disciplines had told the stories, histories, struggles and triumphs of people of color on what was seen to be their own terms."
"It emerged partly in response to charges that traditional social science and humanities disciplines were conceived from an inherently Eurocentric perspective."
"Ethnic Studies became widely known as a secondary issue that arose after the civil rights era."
"Its origin comes before the civil rights era, as early as the 1900s."
"Educator and historian W. E. B. Du Bois expressed the need for teaching black history."
"Anthropology, history, literature, sociology, political science, cultural studies, and area studies."
"That they were conceived from an inherently Eurocentric perspective."
"While international studies focus on relations between the United States and Third World Countries, ethnic studies challenges the existing curriculum by focusing on the history of minority ethnicities within the United States."
"Representation, racialization, racial formation theory, and more determinedly interdisciplinary topics and approaches."
"To challenge the existing curriculum, question representations, and promote interdisciplinarity."
"As expressed by the state, by civil society, and by individuals."
"To understand the complexities and dynamics of race, ethnicity, and nation."
"Race, sexuality, gender, and other such markings."
"It promotes certain cultural material as archetypal only when authors meet certain demographic criteria, subordinating any deviation from those criteria to hyphenated status."
"It contends that cultural diversity should be acknowledged and represented rather than promoting a singular, unhyphenated view."
"It aims to tell the stories, histories, struggles, and triumphs of historically marginalized communities on their own terms."
"It has broadened its focus to include questions of representation, racialization, racial formation theory, and more determinedly interdisciplinary topics and approaches." Note: The selected quotes from the paragraph are adapted for clarity and coherence.