Contact Details
Nina Banks
Associate Professor of Economics Affiliated Faculty in Critical Black Studies, Interim Director for CSREG
Location
130 Academic West Building
Minor in Race & Ethnicity Studies
The minor in race & ethnicity studies takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of race and ethnicity. What do these categories of difference mean? How have they been defined, constructed and applied in different historical and socio-cultural contexts? How do they intersect or overlap with other aspects of difference (for example, gender, class, nation, sexuality, religion)? Exploring these questions with analytical tools and approaches developed in a range of academic disciplines, the minor leads to a critical examination of the construction of race and ethnicity in a variety of social, cultural, historical, political and economic contexts.
Approved Course List for the Minor in Race & Ethnicity Studies
(last updated Oct. 20, 2023)
NOTE: Courses are added to this list on an ongoing basis. Please contact a member of the Coordinating Committee (Cymone Fourshey or Susan A. Reed) if you have questions about a course or courses that you do not see listed here.
Core Courses
ENLS 203: Queerness and Race
ENLS 203: Reading Race in Time Travel
HIST 258: Brujas, Machos y Travestis
POLS 263: Race and Ethnicity in American Legal Thought
POLS 353: Seminar on Comparative Ethnic Politics
PHIL 229: Philosophy and Race
SOCI 243: Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
WMST/CBST 227: Race and Sexuality
Comparative/Theoretical Courses
ECON 402: Economics of Inequality
EDUC 318/618: Multiculturalism and Education
ENLS 203: Reading Race in Time Travel
ENLS 203: Queerness and Race
ENST 232: Identity, Inequality, and the Environment
HIST 248: Soviet Union as a Multiethnic Empire
HIST 260: Black Women’s History
LAMS 204: Racism(s) Across the Americas
MIDI 315: Marketing for Social Impact
PHIL 229: Philosophy and Race
PHIL 264: Latin American Philosophy
POLS 246: Race, Ethnicity, and American Politics
POLS 263: Race and Ethnicity in American Legal Thought
SOCI 243: Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
SOCI 309: How Holocausts Happen
UNIV 299: Race and Ethnicity after Technology
WMST 225: Modernism on the Margins: Race, Class and Sexuality
WMST/CBST 227: Race and Sexuality
Area/Ethnic Group Courses
ANTH 256: Anthropology of Native North America
ANTH 235/IREL 235: Modern Africa (UNIV 200)
ANTH 252: Ritual, Resistance, and Rebellion in South America
ANTH 329: Religions in Africa: Spirits, Saints and Sufis
EDUC 227: Immigrant Youth in U.S. Society
ENLS 311: Book Banning and U.S. Latinx Literature
ENLS 213: Beyond Rum and Revolution: Imagining Cuba from the Diaspora
ENLS 214: U.S. Latino/a Literatures
ENLS 214: Growing up Latinx
ENLS 215: Asian American Literature and Film
ENLS 216: Jewish American Comedy: Stage, Screen and Stand-up
ENLS 217: The Theatre of the Civil Rights Movement
ENLS 217: Studies in Dramatic Literature: Margins to Mainstream: U.S. Latino/a Theatre & Film
ENLS 219: Melville’s Sea, Faulkner’s South, Morrison’s Song
ENLS 221: Introduction to African American Literature
ENLS 222: Ethnic Comedy in the United States
ENLS 223: Questioning the Post-Racial
ENLS 227/CBST 222: Caribbean Literature
ENLS 290: Affrilachia, Race, Power, and Regional Literature
ENLS/HUMN 306: U.S.: Fever/Fantasy/Desire
FREN 236: Special Topics: French West Indies
GRMN 274: Holocaust Literature
GRMN/HUMN 279: Never Again? Antisemitism
HIST 211: Frontiers and Borderlands
HIST 214: Topics in American History (Native American History)
HIST 218: American Revolution (African Americans and the American Revolution)
HIST 219: Ante-Bellum America: Slavery
HIST 222: U.S. History since the 1940s to the Present (Thomson)
HIST 223: Twentieth-century African American History
HIST 277: Gender in Africa
HIST 319: African-American History
HIST 319: Terror and the Black Struggle
LAMS 150: Latin America: An Introduction
LAMS 203: U.S. Politics and Changing Latinx Identities
LING 210: Language and Race
MUSC 248: Music and Culture: Jazz and Social Justice
MUSC 257: Music and Culture: Jazz, Rock, and Race
POLS 239: Latino Politics in the U.S.
SOCI 324: Whiteness and White Privilege
UNIV 200: Integrated Perspectives: Modern Africa
WMST 225: Modernism on the Margins: Race, Class and Sexuality
WMST 332: Women and the Penal System