The Race and Resistance Studies minor is an interdisciplinary program that provides undergraduate students with an approach to social justice to study race as a politically produced and contested process that begins with institutions, movements, and social problems to examine racialized communities.
Overview
The curriculum examines how race, gender, and class are co-constitutive factors of identity; how different groups are racialized in relation to one another; how social justice movements cohere and fall apart; and how groups have formed their own identities. The Race and Resistance Studies minor provides students with non-traditional, multi-ethnic, and comparative perspectives on national and transnational experiences of people of color within the U.S.
Program Learning Outcomes
- Identify the objectives of Ethnic Studies/Race and Resistance Studies.
- Learn how to interpret cultural production by people of color and how it expresses agency.
- Apply the concept of intersectionality to the experiences of people of color.
- Apply principles of community-engaged scholarship and community service learning.
Race and Resistance Studies, Minor — 18 units minimum
The minor consists of 18 units minimum of undergraduate study.
- Only one third of the units or no more than approximately two courses can be taken credit/no credit for the minor.
- At least half of all courses towards the minor degree must be upper-division at the 300 level or above.
- Students should try to complete RRS 100 or RRS 110 before taking any further courses in the minor.
- All coursework used to satisfy the requirements of the minor must be completed with a minimum grade point average of 2.0.
Introductory Course (3 units)
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| ETHS/RRS 100 | Introduction to Ethnic Studies | 3 |
| ETHS/RRS 110 | Critical Thinking and the Ethnic Studies Experience | 3 |
Core Courses (9 units)
| Code | Title |
|---|---|
| Section A: History and Politics | |
| RRS 240 | All Power to the People: Comparative Freedom Movements of the "Sixties" |
| RRS 250 | Race, Ethnicity and Power in America |
| RRS 252 | Beyond Bars and Borders: Race and the Carceral State |
| RRS 270 | Creativity, Decolonization, and Social Justice in Oceania |
| RRS 276 | Race, Activism and Climate Justice |
| RRS 350 | Race, Labor, and Class Struggle |
| RRS 415 | Reclaiming the Bay: Grassroots Struggle Against Racial Capitalism |
| RRS 435 | National Security and the Racialization of Arabs and Muslims in North America |
| RRS 520 | Race, Radicalism and Revolution |
| RRS 600/HIST 466 | History of People of Color in the U.S. |
| Section B: Popular Culture, Literature, and the Arts | |
| RRS 275 | Introduction to Pacific Islander Literature: How To Read An Ocean |
| RRS 280 | Disrupting Science Fiction: Race, Gender, and Alternative Futures |
| RRS 282 | Art and Cultural Practices of Oceania |
| RRS 285 | Race, Sports, and Society |
| RRS 290 | Sounds of Resistance: Race, Rhythm, Rhyme, and Revolution |
| RRS 295 | Race, Public Art, and Creative Resistance |
| RRS 360 | Our Stories: Literatures of Race and Resistance |
| RRS 365 | Race and Comedy in the United States |
| RRS 430 | Arab Media Images in America: Impact on Arab Americans |
| RRS/AIS 433 | Pacific Islanders in Film: Re-Presenting Oceania Through an Indigenous Lens |
| RRS/ARAB 450 | Contemporary Arabic and Arab American Literature |
| RRS 480 | Youth Culture, Race and Resistance |
| Section C: Gender and Sexuality | |
| RRS 304 | Decolonize Your Diet: Food Justice and Gendered Labor in Communities of Color |
| RRS 375 | Queer Arabs in the U.S. |
| RRS/SXS 380 | Queer and Trans Ethnic Studies |
| RRS 460/COUN 450/SXS 460 | HIV and AIDS Impacts and Resistance Among Communities of Color |
| RRS 571 | Women, Race, and Class |
| RRS/SXS/WGS 640 | Race and Sexual Migration |
| Section D: Diasporas and Transnationalism | |
| RRS 370 | Islamophobia: Roots, Development, and Contestation of Hatred |
| RRS 420 | Arab American Identity: Memory and Resistance |
| RRS 630 | Palestine: Ethnic Studies Perspective |
| RRS 657/AA S 541 | South Asian Diaspora |
| WGS/RRS 566 | Gender and Modernity in the Muslim and Arab Worlds |
Community Service Learning (1 – 3 units)
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| RRS/SOC 410 | Grassroots Organizing for Change in Communities of Color | 3 |
| RRS 694 | Community Engaged Learning: Praxis in Race and Resistance Studies | 3 |
Elective Courses (3 units)
3 units of any RRS courses. When selecting electives, remember that at least three courses used for the minor must be upper-division at the 300 level or above.