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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Core and Upper Division Electives List

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

Jul 2: 10-Week Session - Add Deadline
Jul 3: University Closed: Independence Day Observed
Jul 6: 8-Week & 10-Week Session - Drop Deadline (tuition & campus fee reversed)

News and Events

June 12, 2020
Mikael Owunna’s Photographs Show the Essence of Black Healing
June 11, 2020
Announcing the Black Studies Minor
June 10, 2020
Artist-Made Tools Resist Algorithmic Racism and Empower Communities

More news

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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