Ethnic Studies Vision Statement
The Department of Ethnic Studies at UCSD is a key center of empirical and theoretically-based research, outstanding teaching, and creative collaborations that promote social justice. We offer an innovative vision of the post/colonial world and its peoples for the 21st century. Our faculty and students focus on fundamental theoretical and political questions regarding the critical conceptualization of social categories, particularly race, indigeneity, culture, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, and nation. We engage and elucidate alternative epistemologies that have emerged from racialized and indigenous communities in a U.S. and transnational context in order to produce new knowledges for the academy and broader public. We are committed to rethinking these issues in a comparative, relational, and interdisciplinary fashion in order to interrogate questions of power, violence and inequality.
For more information about the Ethnic Studies Department, please contact the UCSD Ethnic Studies Department, 858-534-3276 or ethnicstudies@ucsd.edu