Ethnic Studies

Ethnic studies is the interdisciplinary study of racialized peoples in the across the world in relation to ethnicity. It evolved in the second half of the 20th century partly in response to charges that traditional disciplines such as anthropology, history, English, ethnology, Asian studies, and orientalism were imbued with an inherently eurocentric perspective. Ethnic Studies was created to teach the stories, histories, struggles and triumphs of people of color on their own terms.

Between the World and Me
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
The Souls of Black Folk
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
Black Skin, White Masks
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Animal Farm by George OrwellReservation Blues by Sherman AlexieThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins1984 by George OrwellBless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
Books Banned in Arizona 2012
45 books — 18 voters
Blake or The Huts of America by Martin R. DelanyNuestra América by José MartíThe Saint of Incipient Insanities by Elif ShafakBanjo by Claude McKayThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
Transnational American Literature
10 books — 3 voters


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