First-Year Seminar: People, Power, Protest

This introductory Ethnic Studies course explores how race, gender, sexuality, class, religion, and nationality shape power in society. We'll study how these forces have impacted Black, Brown, Latinx, Indigenous, and Asian American communities through systems of violence like slavery, labor exploitation, land theft, and war. At the same time, we'll learn how these communities have resisted and imagined new ways of living. Drawing from Third World, Black, Chicanx/Latinx, Asian American, Feminist, Queer, and Indigenous Studies, students will engage with key ideas and practices that have built solidarity and shaped movements for justice.