Summary: Understanding The Study Of Race From Ethnic Studies Perspective
Historical Context:
Understanding The Study of Race from an Ethnic Studies' Perspective
"The students, united, will never be defeated!". This was the rallying call of students at San Francisco State University trying to save their Asian America Studies classes in 2008. 40 years after the first Third World Liberation Front protested and fought against discrimination and for their rights to have ethnic studies classes, the fight still continues. Students fought to have classes from the perspective of ethnic peoples, and not the Eurocentric point of view. In doing so, the struggle for ethnic studies from students and the community challenged and broke the status quo and construct of "race" in a Eurocentric America. Ethnic studies in the U.S. campuses started in the 60's along with the Civil Rights Movement, opposition against the Vietnam War, the fight for women's rights, and many other fights by the people for their rights. In March of …show more content…
Jesus Rodriguez realized "people can be so quick to attach certain characteristics to a person's race". The characteristics we attach to minorities are they're lazy, they don't want to leave the bottom, they're slow learners, etc. With this in mind, white people in power discriminated these minorities, saying they don't belong in their universities. Many white people believed in the status quo or race at the time and opposed the ethnic protestors. But what about everyone else that eventually sided with the protestors? Especially during the 60's and 70's, people began to fight for each other's rights. The division between races between people were lessening, and the thought of a human race were expanding. They fought for their own rights and they fought for each other's rights, because they realized all minorities at the time were going through the same
Understanding The Study of Race from an Ethnic Studies' Perspective
"The students, united, will never be defeated!". This was the rallying call of students at San Francisco State University trying to save their Asian America Studies classes in 2008. 40 years after the first Third World Liberation Front protested and fought against discrimination and for their rights to have ethnic studies classes, the fight still continues. Students fought to have classes from the perspective of ethnic peoples, and not the Eurocentric point of view. In doing so, the struggle for ethnic studies from students and the community challenged and broke the status quo and construct of "race" in a Eurocentric America. Ethnic studies in the U.S. campuses started in the 60's along with the Civil Rights Movement, opposition against the Vietnam War, the fight for women's rights, and many other fights by the people for their rights. In March of …show more content…
Jesus Rodriguez realized "people can be so quick to attach certain characteristics to a person's race". The characteristics we attach to minorities are they're lazy, they don't want to leave the bottom, they're slow learners, etc. With this in mind, white people in power discriminated these minorities, saying they don't belong in their universities. Many white people believed in the status quo or race at the time and opposed the ethnic protestors. But what about everyone else that eventually sided with the protestors? Especially during the 60's and 70's, people began to fight for each other's rights. The division between races between people were lessening, and the thought of a human race were expanding. They fought for their own rights and they fought for each other's rights, because they realized all minorities at the time were going through the same