Interdisciplinary study of race, ethnicity and nationality's relationships with power
Not to be confused with Ethnology or Ethnography.
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Ethnic studies, in the United States, is the interdisciplinary study of difference—chiefly race, ethnicity, and nation, but also sexuality, gender, and other such markings—and power, as expressed by the state, by civil society, and by individuals.
Its origin comes before the civil rights era, as early as the 1900s. During this time, educator and historian W. E. B. Du Bois expressed the need for teaching black history.[1] However, Ethnic Studies became widely known as a secondary issue that arose after the civil rights era.[2] Ethnic studies was originally conceived to re-frame the way that specific disciplines had told the stories, histories, struggles and triumphs of people of color on what was seen to be their own terms. In recent years, it has broadened its focus to include questions of representation, racialization, racial formation theory, and more determinedly interdisciplinary topics and approaches.
As opposed to international studies, which was originally created to focus on the relations between the United States and Third World countries, ethnic studies was created to challenge the already existing curriculum and focus on the history of people of different minority ethnicity in the United States.[3] Ethnic studies is an academic field that spans the humanities and the social sciences; it emerged as an academic field in the second half of the 20th century partly in response to charges that traditional social science and humanities disciplines such as anthropology, history, literature, sociology, political science, cultural studies, and area studies were conceived from an inherently Eurocentric perspective.[4]
"The unhyphenated-American phenomenon tends to have colonial characteristics," notes Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera in After American Studies: Rethinking the Legacies of Transnational Exceptionalism: "English-language texts and their authors are promoted as representative; a piece of cultural material may be understood as unhyphenated—and thus archetypal—only when authors meet certain demographic criteria; any deviation from these demographic or cultural prescriptions are subordinated to hyphenated status."[5]
^Tillman, Linda; Fenwick, W. English (2006). Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Administration. Thousand Oaks, CA, USA: Sage Publications. ISBN 9780761930877.
^Anderson, Melinda D. (March 7, 2016). "The Academic Benefits of Ethnic Studies". The Atlantic. Retrieved December 14, 2018.
^Hu-Dehart, Evelyn (1993). "The History, Development, and Future of Ethnic Studies". The Phi Delta Kappan. 75 (1): 50–54. JSTOR 20405023.
^Chapman, Roger (2013). Culture Wars in America: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints, and Voices. London, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780765683021.
^Herlihy-Mera, Jeffrey (2018). After American Studies: Rethinking the Legacies of Transnational Exceptionalism |. Routledge. p. 5. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
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