CHLT 056 CH - Intro to Comparative Ethnic Studies

This course is a study in locating the differential and intersectional formations of power in society and the

world. We will explore how race, gender, sexuality, class, religion, and nationality organize our political,

economic, and social structures. In doing so, we will trace how these structures have subjected Black, Brown,

Latinx, Indigenous, and Asian American communities to varying scales of violence, from enslavement to

labor exploitation, land dispossession, and imperial war. While the course focuses on the ways in which

power has historically and contemporarily manifested in communities of color, we will also study how these

communities resist, if not imagine, alternative ways of being and knowing.

Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.