» Study of race, ethnicity, and indigeneity

The Ethnic Studies Minor is the interdisciplinary study of race, ethnicity, and indigeneity, with a focus on the histories, cultures, perspectives, and community work of marginalized racial and ethnic groups in the United States. The curriculum takes a theoretical, historical, and experiential approach to examine: modern (in)justice; social movements; legal and public policy activism; antiracist and anti-patriarchal ontologies; liberationist epistemologies; and community and identity formation in American history. Students will learn about multiple cultures’ social and historical context within the United States; academic and experiential learning are interwoven such that key themes, concepts, and ideas in the field of Ethnic Studies are applied intentionally with communities.

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Dr. Justin de Leon, Assistant professor in Ethnic Studies

Dr. de Leon has been a visiting professor at the Kroc Institute for International Peace, University of Notre Dame and the Department of Critical Theory and Social Justice, Occidental College. He earned his Ph.D. in international relations with a focus on feminist theory and indigeneity at the University of Delaware. He is completing a book project entitled Resurgent Visual Sovereignty: Ontological Security and Indigenous Film Praxis, under contract with the University of Nebraska, and has published articles in Borderlands: New Spaces in the Humanities and the International Feminist Journal of Politics. His creative/scholarly work also includes short and features films, and podcasts including the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies “Pedagogies for Peace: Intersectional and Decolonial Teaching” podcast series.

» Study of race, ethnicity, and indigeneity

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