Critical Race & Ethnic Studies

CRES is Hiring in Black Studies!

CRES is recruiting for a tenure-track or tenured professor in any area of Black Studies. We seek an interdisciplinary scholar who pushes the boundaries of the fields they inhabit, asks provocative questions, and contests norms of knowledge production. Apply Here!

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

Sep 26: First Day of Classes
Sep 30: Fall Quarter Enrollment Deadline
Oct 16: Add/Drop/Swap Ends
Oct 21: Fall Welcome Reception

News and Events

October 23, 2019
Jasmin Young Talk: "SHE STOOD THERE BY HIM WITH A GUN"
October 2, 2019
Sociology PhD candidate named UC Free Speech Fellow
September 19, 2019Nick Mitchell Speaks at Ithaca

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Graduate Research Spotlight

For the Glory of Gold and Bones: Spiritual Accumulation and Grave Theft in the Construction of the San Francisco Bay Area

by Claire Urbanski

CRES graduate Claire Urbanski's project explores the ways that the San Francisco Bay area was able to develop by evacuation, desecration, and museum collections of Ohlone dead. This is done in order to question how these bodies contribute to settler colonial expansion and capital production. Learn more here.

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