"The interdisciplinary study of difference—chiefly race, ethnicity, and nation, but also sexuality, gender, and other such markings—and power."
Examines the experiences and contributions of diverse racial and ethnic groups in society.
Race and ethnicity: The different classifications of people based on physical and cultural characteristics. Understanding how race and ethnicity shape identity, culture, and communication.
Colonialism and Indigenous studies: The study of how colonialism has influenced indigenous communities across continents. Issues of cultural genocide, assimilation and resistance.
Gender and sexuality: How gender shapes experiences and interactions people have with one another. How LGBTQ+ experiences intersect with race, culture, and socio-economic status.
Diaspora studies: The movement and migration of people, and how it has shaped the formation of cultures and identities around the world.
Intersectionality: The concept that people's social identities (such as race, gender, sexual orientation, and class) intersect and interact, contributing to their experiences of power and oppression.
Ethnicity and nationalism: The effects of nationalism, ethnicity, and ethnicity-based nationalism on society.
Social inequalities: The gaps in power, economic opportunity, and social outcomes between different groups in society, and the creation of this imbalance.
Identity formation: The formation of identities through individual and collective characters as shaped by the surrounding culture.
Social movements: How activism and social change in specific ethnic-based communities can lead to broader political and social changes.
Mental health and well-being: How social exclusion or societal inequality impact an individual's mental health, emotional well-being and intellectual outcomes.
African American Studies: African American Studies examine the experiences, history, and contributions of black Americans. The field encompasses areas of study such as history, culture, literature, sociology, and politics that focus on Black Americans worldwide.
Asian American Studies: Asian American Studies includes the examination of the history, culture, and experiences of Asian Americans, including the study of communities, law, politics, sociology, and media representation.
Latinx Studies: Latinx Studies explores the history, culture, politics and social dynamics of Latinx communities.
Native American and Indigenous Studies: Native American and Indigenous Studies involves the study of native and indigenous individuals, their heritage, and their perspectives on social, political, legal, and economic systems.
Jewish Studies: Jewish Studies examine the history, literature, religion, philosophy, politics and culture of Jewish communities across different parts of the world.
Middle Eastern Studies: Middle Eastern Studies incorporate the culture, history, language, and religion of countries in the Middle East, including those of Arabic, Turkish, Persian and other groups.
Multi-ethnic Studies: Multi-ethnic Studies focuses on multiple ethnic and cultural groups, studying their intersections and relations in the framework of power and identity.
Intersectionality Studies: Intersectionality Studies take into consideration the intersection between social identities like race, class and gender, and how they form and influence an individual's experiences in society.
"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.