ETHN at Brown
The undergraduate concentration in Ethnic Studies at Brown is housed under this department.
In 1968, this California university became the first to establish a College of Ethnic Studies after a historic student strike.
What is San Francisco State University?
This scholar's seminal work discussed how colonialism continues even after colonies end, saying “invasion is a structure, not an event"
Who is Patrick Wolfe?
This framework examines how overlapping social identities—such as race, gender, class, and sexuality—combine to create unique experiences of oppression and privilege.
What is intersectionality?
The head of the Ethnic Studies program at Brown.
Who is Kevin Escudero
This decade saw Ethnic Studies programs spread rapidly across U.S. campuses amid the broader Civil Rights, Chicano, and antiwar movements.
What are the 1970s?
This scholar popularized the term “intersectionality” through legal scholarship to explain how race, gender, and class overlap.
Who is Kimberlé Crenshaw?
This term describes the cultural, social, and political experiences of people of African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean, highlighting how their experiences may interconnect.
Indigo Mudbhary's second concentration.
What is history?
The African American student protest of December 1968 at Brown resulted in demands including increasing Black undergraduate admission to 11 % and hiring more Black faculty—an event foundational to later Ethnic Studies initiatives.
What is the 1968 Black Student Walkout at Brown?
In 2021, this state became the first to make Ethnic Studies a high school graduation requirement.
What is California?
These two scholars developed “racial formation theory,” explaining how race is created and changed over time through laws, culture, and social systems.
Who are Michael Omi and Howard Winant?
This framework, developed by Roderick A. Ferguson, examines how race, gender, sexuality, and capitalism intersect—critiquing both queer theory’s whiteness and Marxism’s heteronormativity.
What is Queer of Color Critique?
This DUG leader from last year wrote a thesis about the foster system and is a poet.
Who is RL Wheeler?
Originally created in response to student activism in 1968 and 1975 to serve students of color broadly, this center now underpins community‑building and transitional programs at Brown.
What is the Brown Center for Students of Color (BCSC, formerly the Third World Center)?
The 1968–69 Third World Liberation Front strike at this university helped spark a nationwide movement for Ethnic Studies.
What is UC Berkeley?
This historian and activist’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed profoundly influenced Ethnic Studies approaches to education.
Who is Paulo Freire?
This concept is central to many Latin American national narratives, and refers to the creation of a blended racial and cultural identity.
What is mestizaje?
In 1968 Brown students marched to this church to demand more support for Black students; their protest helped lay the groundwork for later Africana Studies programming.
What is the Congdon Street Baptist Church?
This protest at UC Berkeley involved students fasting to demand increased funding, faculty, and resources for Ethnic Studies programs.
What is the 1999 Ethnic Studies Hunger Strike?
These two scholars wrote the famous article “Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor,” reminding people that real decolonization means giving land back to Indigenous peoples, not just using the word as a symbol.
Who are Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang
Coined by sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois, this phrase describes the internal conflict experienced by subordinated or colonized groups in an oppressive society that projects a demeaning view of them.
What is double consciousness?
What is The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen?