Contact Details
Nina Banks
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 Nov. 14, 2024)
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
ENLS 320: Race & Gender in the 18th Century
HIST 219: Ante-Bellum America: Slavery
HIST 319: Terror and the Black Struggle
MUSC 257: Music and Culture: Jazz, Rock and Race
POLS 353: Seminar on Comparative Ethnic Politics
SOCI 243: Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
WMST/CBST 227: Race and Sexuality
Comparative/Theoretical Courses
ECON 402: Economics of Inequality
EDUC 318/618: Critical Multiculuralism
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
HIST 278: Photographing Race
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
SOCI 243: Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
UNIV 299: Race and Ethnicity after Technology
WMST 225: Reading Race, Gender and Sexuality
WMST/CBST 227: Race and Sexuality
Area/Ethnic Group Courses
ANTH 256: Anthropology of Native North America
ANTH 329: Religions in Africa: Spirits, Saints and Sufi
EDUC 227: Immigrant Youth in U.S. Society
ENLS 213: Beyond Rum and Revolution: Imagining Cuba from the Diaspora
ENLS 214: US Latino/a Literatures
ENLS 217: The Theatre of the Civil Rights Movement
ENLS 217: Studies in Dramatic Literature: Margins to Mainstream: US 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 229: Jewish American Comedy: Stage, Screen, Stand-up
ENLS 290: Affrilachia, Race, Power and Regional Literature
ENLS/HUMN 306: US: Fever/Fantasy/Desire
ENLS 311: Book Banning and US Latinx Literature
FREN 236: Special Topics: French West Indies
GRMN 274: Holocaust Literature
GRMN 276: German Jewish Identities
GRMN/HUMN 279: Never Again? Antisemitism
HIST 211: American West
HIST 214: Topics in American History (Native American History)
HIST 218: American Revolution (African Americans and the American Revolution)
HIST 222: US History since the 1940s to the Present (Thomson)
HIST 258: Brujas, Machos y Travestis
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: Identity, Politics, Nation
LING 210: Language and Race
MUSC 248: Music and Culture: Jazz and Social Justice
MUSC 257: Music and Culture: Jazz, Rock, and Race
SOCI 258: Gender, Race and Poverty in the United States
SOCI 342: Whiteness and White Privilege
UNIV 200: Integrated Perspectives: Modern Africa
WMST 225: Reading Race, Gender and Sexuality