Overview of the Critical 种族研究 Minor

In 2016, 集体, a 欧洲杯足彩竞猜 student organization created by students of color and their allies, distributed a list of institutional priorities for curricular transformation, including the call for a path of undergraduate study dedicated to race. 在接下来的五年里, 教师, staff and students affiliated with GSRS worked to respond to this demand. In 2020, GSRS introduced our 辅修批判种族研究.

The CRS Minor offers an interdisciplinary and intersectional approach to the study of racism, 种族化和种族形成, 本地和全球. It draws on the GSRS program’s curricular strengths in teaching the social construction of identity, centering black feminist ways of knowing, analyzing systems of privilege and oppression through an intersectional lens, 想象更公正的社会.  

Our curriculum is founded on the belief that systemic racism structures everyday life and that everyone, 因此, has a responsibility to work towards racial justice.

什么是批判性种族研究 at 欧洲杯足彩竞猜?

在性别范围内, Sexuality and 种族研究 program, the CRS minor offers a uniquely intersectional curriculum. Core and elective courses approach race and ethnicity as systems which operate in conjunction with gender, 性, 和类, 在其他身份形成中. We believe individuals define themselves, 定义为, various identities; the crossings of identity and affiliation are lived out in psychological, 关系方式和具体化方式. Sexism, homophobia and transphobia operate in tandem with systems of white supremacy. 反过来, feminist and queer critical approaches and pedagogies can be useful tools to disrupt white supremacy, even as we identify and counteract the privileging of whiteness within feminism and LGBTQ movements.

 

The critical study of racism and racial formation focuses on racialized systems of power and oppression and considers individual and collective practices of resistance and flourishing. The field of Critical 种族研究 began with 1960s movements for social change, when student activists of color organized to demand new curricula in higher education that centered Black, Chicanx and Asian culture and history.  

CRS understands the historical formation of racial groups as not naturally determined, 在政治或道德上都不是中立的. Societies assign meaning to different racial categories; these meanings shift over time and across space, 都是相关的. 在欧洲国家, settler-colonies like the United States, and many postcolonial nation-states, races are understood in hierarchical relationship to each other, with whiteness maintained as the dominant racial group. 最重要的是, non-white racial and ethnic groups create vibrant cultures, communities and epistemologies which serve to resist systems of white supremacy.

学位要求

20学时,包括:

  • GSRS 201 (4 semester hours, offered every semester)
  • GSRS 301 (4 semester hours, offered every fall)
  • 额外12学时
    • must be selected from GSRS courses or from list of GSRS-approved courses;
    • must include at least 8 hours of Critical 种族研究 electives (CRSE)
    • must be selected from at least two departments or programs;
    • must be selected from at least two different divisions or schools;
    • at least two courses must be at the 300 or 400-level.

Courses that are not on the approved list, 从任何学科, for which at least 60% of the assignments center on the critical study of race may also count for the Critical 种族研究 minor. This allows the integration of Critical 种族研究 perspectives into courses that are not explicitly or entirely structured around those perspectives. Students should consult the GSRS chair about this option before the course begins (when possible) and provide syllabi and assignments to the GSRS 执行委员会 for approval upon completion of the course.