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Future Graduate Program

The department is committed to further enhance our educational mission as a leading Ethnic Studies unit by developing a Ph.D. program. In particular, the Ph.D. program will be developed with special focus on public policy and community studies, the connection of people of color in the United States with those in the Diaspora (International Affairs), and culture.
The establishment of Ph.D. programs would better serve the needs of an increasingly diverse student body at UC Riverside. Graduate students in our Ph.D. program would meet the Department's Teaching Assistant needs.
The future graduate program in Ethnic Studies will emphasize three substantive areas of concentration that reflect the specializations and expertise of the ETST faculty at the University of California, Riverside.  These include:

Area I: The Political Economy of Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality

Working with faculties’ specializations at UCR, includes labor, transnational dynamics, imperialism, globalization and its effects, and the political economy of women of color issues;

Area 2: Cultural Production: Race/Class/Gender and Vernacular Cultural Practices

Working with faculties’ specializations at UCR, includes literature, music, and other forms of oppositional, popular culture as these express the vernacular experiences of a community or communities;

Area 3: The State, Law, Criminal Justice, and Grassroots Responses

Working with faculties’ specializations at UCR, includes movements for popular democracy, social justice/social change, especially in regard to policies regarding education, incarceration, and immigration, as seen in the context of nationalistic or global policies and practices of capitalist state formations.