Since its inception in the late 1960s, Ethnic Studies has provided an academic forum to question and understand race and ethnicity as major shaping forces in US politics and culture. From its roots in the civil rights movements of the sixties and seventies to its current iteration in university classrooms, Ethnic Studies has always sought to widen the lens of academic inquiry to include questions, perspectives and experiences of marginalized populations in the United States and globally. Ethnic Studies at UP explores questions of genocide, decolonization migration, and population displacement and concepts such as intersectionality, racial formation, diaspora.
-Amy Ongiri, Director and Professor of Ethnic Studies
University of Portland
5000 N. Willamette Blvd.,
Portland, Oregon 97203-5798
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