Ethnicstudies.ucsd.edu Website Review

Situated in a region where the US-Mexico border zone, indigenous national and tribal governments, and the Asia-Pacific interact to produce a dynamic geopolitical location, UCSD’s Ethnic Studies Department is a vibrant community of scholars committed to the The department’s innovative approach represents a commitment to transnational, relational, and intersectional methods for producing critical knowledge about power and inequality, including systems of knowledge that have emerged from racialized and indigenous communities Ethnic Studies is devoted to creative, conceptual, and empirical research; critical pedagogy; collaborations with a broad group of affiliated faculty; and social justice projects developed with and for the university, our home communities, and the broader public.. YOUR DONATIONS DIRECTLY SUPPORT THE DEPARTMENT OF ETHNIC STUDIES. SPECIAL LAUNCH EVENT HOSTED BY PROFESSORS YEN ESPIRITU & LUIS ALVAREZ. Friday, February 23rd @ 2:30pm in the Communidad Room at the Cross-Cultural Center.  They will sharing info about their new course HIUS 144 Race & Oral History in San Diego. To learn more visit our News and Events tab Tuesday, March 6th @ 1:00pm in the Communidad Room at the Cross-Cultural Center. This event is co-sponsored by SPACES, The Cross-Cultural Center, Critical Gender Studies and Ethnic Studies. To learn more visit our News and Events tab 2016) was named runner up for the American Studies As*ociation’s John Hope Franklin Publication Prize. The award is given yearly and honors the most outstanding book published in American studies for the year preceding the annual meeting. The committee praised the book’s “innovative approach to the figure of the fa*m worker and it claims for the centrality to American Studies of histories that have sometimes remained too narrowly confined to Mexican American studies.  Your innovative method for interdisciplinary scholarship was also notable, especially your use of expanded understandings of visual cultures and technologies to articulate new ways of thinking