ETHN 231 - DECOLONIZATION AND RACIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTS

    Recent Professors
    Melissa Charles
    Recent Semesters
    Fall 2026, Spring 2026, Fall 2025
    Class Size
    40 students
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisite
    Advisories: ETHN 230
    Fall 2026 Sections
    View Fall 2026 sections of ETHN 231
    Transfers To
    UC and CSUCal-GETC Area 4 · IGETC Area 4 · CSU GE Area D
    Description
    Examines movements for decolonization and racial justice in the United States and around the world among Native American and Indigenous peoples, as well as Black/African American, Asian American and Chicanx/Latinx communities. Analyzes the social, historical, and cultural factors that prompt intersectional and decolonial struggles for racial, gender, economic, educational, and environmental justice, such as Black Lives Matter, Say Her Name, Land Back, and local tribal efforts to assert and maintain Indigenous sovereignty and racial justice. Covers the scope and influence of racial justice movements, civil rights, struggles for Indigenous sovereignty, decolonization, and contemporary mobilization. Pays special attention to movements that are currently working to end intersecting forms of racism, settler-colonialism, cisheterosexism, and xenophobia.