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How does learning about culture make learning easier? Diversity, inclusion, and belonging often contribute to bringing awareness about culture and learning. Attempts to enhance the implementation of diversity, inclusion, and culture are significant parts of learning. However, learning about culture is often roiled by laws that govern how students should gain cultural and self-identity from ...

Full-Time Tenure TrackReq: A2022-009Deadline: 02/24/2022 @ 3:00 p.m. PST Complete job description and application available online at: https://compton.igreentree.com/css_academic Compton Community College District is seeking an innovative individual whose focus is student learning for a full-time 10-month tenure-track position teaching History/Ethnic Studies courses. Duties associated with the position include participation in a variety of campus and divisional ...

My research has previously focused on testimonio and critical ethnographic methods in exploring how Mexican American community college students in Oregon use their lived experiences to serve as a catalyst to “empower” them to pursue higher education. My current research interest is focused on racialized social class as a unit for analysis in the schooling experience(s) of Mexican ...

Ethnic Studies asks us to engage the issues of racism, colonialism, global economic and political systems, ecological devastation, health degradation, cultural vitalities, and our geographies of differentiation and discrimination. At its most basic, Ethnic Studies asks us to think and to act. To ask and to listen. To love and to be responsible for one ...

In a recent issue of Ethnic Studies Review, I wrote a commentary about January 6, 2021.  In short, it is the very type of critique and analysis one would expect from anyone involved, even tangentially, with Ethnic Studies. But, somewhat to my surprise, the responses and “pushback” to my commentary indicate just how volatile and ...

The Association for Ethnic Studies (AES) has a long herstory dating back to the early 1970s. Starting with a small group of scholars in the Midwest who, in 1972, saw a need for an organization which would bring together those interested in an interdisciplinary approach to the national and international dimension of ethnicity.  From the ...