Ethnic Studies Vision Statement
The Department of Ethnic Studies at UCSD offers an innovative vision of the post-colonial world and its peoples. Our faculty and students focus on the fundamental theoretical and political questions regarding the critical conceptualization of social categories, particularly race, indigeneity, culture, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, and nation. We are committed to rethinking these issues in a comparative, relational, and multidisciplinary fashion in order to interrogate questions of power and inequality. We provide alternative epistemologies for the study of the histories, languages, and cultures of racialized and indigenous populations in the U.S. and globally in a way that produces new knowledges for the academy and the broader public. The Department of Ethnic Studies is a key center of empirical and theoretically-based research, outstanding teaching, and creative collaborations that promote social justice.
For more information about the Ethnic Studies Department, please contact the UCSD Ethnic Studies Department, 858-534-3276 or ethnicstudies@ucsd.edu