In the United States, the field of ethnic studies evolved out of the Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s and early 1970s, which contributed to growing self-awareness and radicalization of people of color such as African-Americans, Asian Americans, Latino Americans, and American Indians. 6 Scholars whose work is associated with ethnic studies.4.2 Critical Ethnic Studies Association (CESA).4.1 National Association for Ethnic Studies.In recent years, it has broadened its focus to include questions of representation, racialization, racial formation theory, and more determinedly interdisciplinary topics and approaches. Ethnic studies was originally conceived to re-frame the way that specific disciplines had told the stories, histories, struggles and triumphs of people of color on what was seen to be their own terms. However, Ethnic Studies became widely known as a secondary issue that arose after the civil rights era. Du Bois expressed the need for teaching black history. During this time, educator and historian W.
Its origin comes before the civil rights era, as early as the 1900s. Ethnic studies is an academic field that spans the humanities and the social sciences it emerged as an academic field in the second half of the 20th century partly in response to charges that traditional social science and humanities disciplines such as anthropology, history, literature, sociology, political science, cultural studies, and area studies were conceived from an inherently Eurocentric perspective. "The unhyphenated-American phenomenon tends to have colonial characteristics," notes Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera in After American Studies: Rethinking the Legacies of Transnational Exceptionalism: "English-language texts and their authors are promoted as representative a piece of cultural material may be understood as unhyphenated-and thus archetypal- only when authors meet certain demographic criteria any deviation from these demographic or cultural prescriptions are subordinated to hyphenated status." As opposed to International studies, which was originally created to focus on the relations between the United States and Third World Countries, Ethnic studies was created to challenge the already existing curriculum and focus on the history of people of different minority ethnicity in the United States. ( May 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Įthnic studies, in the United States, is the interdisciplinary study of difference-chiefly race, ethnicity, and nation, but also sexuality, gender, and other such markings-and power, as expressed by the state, by civil society, and by individuals. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This section needs additional citations for verification.
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