Critical Race & Ethnic Studies

Enrollment opens May 1st!

Critical Race & Ethnic Studies at UCSC

Here we explore how race and ethnicity have structured societies past and present, both in the U.S. and globally, and how power and domination and struggles for liberation have been articulated and enacted throughout modern history up to present day.

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2018 CRES Newsletter

Now in its fifth year, CRES is undergoing a vibrant boom as a program. We welcome seven new principal faculty members, and our major numbers more than doubled last year alone. Learn more!

Calendar

May 29: Last Day to Add a Class by Permission Code
May 29: Last Day to Change Grading Option
Jun 12: CRES/FMST Virtual Senior Celebration

News and Events

May 9, 2020
VIRTUAL: Humanities Happy Hour – Freedom & Race in the Time of Pandemic | May 14 @ 5:30 pm
February 21, 2020Why Nick Mitchell Is Returning the Chancellor’s Achievement Award for Diversity
February 10, 2020
CRES Solidarity Statement with COLA Campaign

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Graduate Research Spotlight

CRES DE in Literature Department, Talib Jabbar, describes how their work searches for a queer politics in the age of permanent war, a politics that dissents the normativizing logic of American-led imperial warfare. Read more click here

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