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.

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Between the World and Me
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
The Souls of Black Folk
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
Black Skin, White Masks
The Fire Next Time
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
The Wretched of the Earth
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
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
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
Blake or The Huts of America by Martin R. DelanyNuestra América by José MartíThe Saint of Incipient Insanities by Elif ShafakRecreating the World by Michael Bopp and Judie BoppBanjo by Claude McKay
Transnational American Literature
11 books — 4 voters
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


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A.E. Samaan
“ The claim that Darwin’s theories were at the core of eugenics, the racial science at the core of Nazism, are not new. They are not revisionist history made upon the revelations of the Death Camps. These claims precede The Holocaust by several decades. American and British icons of science, namely Darwin’s relatives and colleagues, were making this claim before Adolf Hitler was even born, and continued to do so on up through the end of WWII. ”
― A.E. Samaan, H.H. Laughlin: American Scientist, American Progressive, Nazi Collaborator

Sharon Hurley Hall
“ The experience of slavery is the bedrock on which Caribbean society has been founded. ”
― Sharon Hurley Hall, Exploring Shadeism

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