Race and Ethnic Relations Concentration

Undergraduate Concentration

Race and Ethnic Relations is an interdisciplinary concentration that enables students to examine relations within and between racial and ethnic groups primarily in the United States. The concentration brings together a wide range of courses in the humanities and social sciences that allow students to compare experiences across racial and ethnic groups. The concentration also allows students to compare the U.S. experience with that of other racially and ethnically diverse countries in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia, past and present.

Program Faculty

María Acosta Cruz, Ph.D.
Parminder Bhachu, Ph.D.
Paul Burke, Ph.D.
Carol D’Lugo, Ph.D.
Debórah Dwork, Ph.D.
Jody Emel, Ph.D.
Odile Ferly, Ph.D.
Everett Fox, Ph.D.
Betsy P. Huang, Ph.D.
Fern Johnson, Ph.D.
Willem Klooster, Ph.D.
Sharon Krefetz, Ph.D.
Thomas Kuehne, Ph.D.
Constance Montross, Ph.D.
Paul W. Posner, Ph.D.
Robert Ross, Ph.D.
Valerie Sperling, Ph.D.
Jaan Valsiner, Ph.D.

Principal Advisers

Janette Greenwood, Ph.D.
Shelly Tenenbaum, Ph.D.

Courses

• CLAS 262 - Jews and Christians in the Ancient World
• CMLT 130 - The National Imagination
• CMLT 174 - Islands in the Stream: Puerto Rico and the French Antilles
• ENG 263 - British Romantic Literature: Race and Imperialism in Romanticism
• ENG 275 - Fictions of Empire: Studies in Global English Literature
• ENG 279 - Fictions of Asian America
• GEOG 020 - American Cities: Changing Spaces, Community Places
• GEOG 197 - Native Americans, Land and Natural Resources
• HIST 016 - American Race and Ethnicity
• HIST 113 - American Urban History
• HIST 152 - Jews in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America
• HIST 153 - Europe in the Age of Extremes: the 20th Century
• HIST 173 - The History of Racial Thought in Modern Europe
• HIST 175 - Holocaust: Agency and Action
• HIST 216 - Special Topics: African-American Internationalism
• HIST 221 - African-American History to 1865
• HIST 223 - The Civil Rights Movement
• HIST 227 - The Caribbean in the Era of Slavery, 1492-1886
• HIST 234 - Racial Thought and Body Politics in Modern Europe (1500-2000)
• HIST 235 - The Atlantic World
• HIST 268 - Special Topics: Advanced Topics in the Study of Genocide
• HIST 273 - Life Under Occupation
• HIST 285 - Introduction to African-American History, 1865-Present
• ID 120 - Introduction to Socio-Cultural Anthropology
• PSCI 171 - Urban Politics: People, Power and Conflict in U.S. Cities
• PSCI 214 - Mass Murder and Genocide Under Communism
• PSCI 224 - African American Politics
• PSCI 230 - The Armenian Genocide
• PSCI 264 - Race and Representation
• PSCI 282 - Housing Policies and Politics
• PSCI 290 - U.S. - Latin American Relations
• PSYC 156 - Cultural Psychology
• PSYC 280 - Morality & Culture
• PSYC 315 - Social and Cultural Psychology of Genocides
• RER 117 - Field Work in the Latino Community
• RER 126 - Cities and Suburbs
• RER 182 - African American Literature I
• RER 183 - African American Literature II
• RER 208 - Her Story: History and Fiction of Caribbean Women Writers
• RER 211 - Politics and Development in Southern Africa
• RER 215 - Language and Culture in the United States
• RER 252 - Race and American Society
• RER 257 - Language at Issue
• RER 265 - Social Movements: Quest for Justice
• RER 276 - Ethnic America: Literary and Theoretical Perspectives
• RER 291 - Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
• SOC 203 - American Jewish Life
• SOC 260 - Roots and Routes: Immigrants, Diasporas and Travel
• SOC 285 - Social Policy, Immigration and Poverty
• SOC 293 - Diasporas and Immigrant Cultures: Theory, Art and Media
• SPAN 239 - Hispanic Caribbean Fiction
• SPAN 245 - Hispanic-American Short Story

1.

One course must be HIST 016 - American Race and Ethnicity , a humanities course. This course serves as the introductory course for the concentration.

2.

Two additional courses in the humanities (classics, English, foreign languages and literature, history). One of these courses must be a literature course.

3.

Three courses in the social sciences (cultural and global processes, geography, government, sociology).

4.

A minimum of three courses must be at the 200 level. One course must be an advanced seminar approved by the student’s adviser. The advanced seminar serves as the capstone experience.

5.

One course whose focus is a country or region other than the United States.

Introductory Course

• HIST 016 - American Race and Ethnicity

Humanities Courses

Social Science Courses

Courses on Race and Ethnicity Outside the United States

Independent Study Courses

• RER 299 Sec. 1 Directed Readings
• RER 299 Sec. 5 Special Projects
• RER 299 Sec. 9 Internship