Race & Ethnicity Studies Minor

The minor in race & ethnicity studies takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of race and ethnicity. What do these categories of difference mean? How have they been defined, constructed and applied in different historical and socio-cultural contexts? How do they intersect or overlap with other aspects of difference (e.g., gender, class, nation, sexuality, religion)? Exploring these questions with analytical tools and approaches developed in a range of academic disciplines, the minor leads to a critical examination of the construction of race and ethnicity in a variety of social, cultural, historical, political and economic contexts.

The minor consists of five courses to be taken from three categories:

Course from any of the three categories1
Race & Ethnicity Core Requirement
Select at least one of the following:1
Introduction to Race and Literature (Queerness and Race)
Introduction to Race and Literature (Reading Race in Time Travel)
Topics in Women's and Gender History (Brujas, Machos y Travestis)
Philosophy and Race
Race and Ethnicity in American Legal Thought
Comparative Ethnic Politics
Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
Race and Sexuality
Comparative/Theoretical
Select at least one course from the list of approved comparative/theoretical courses. 11
Economics of Inequality
Critical Multiculturalism
Introduction to Race and Literature (Queerness and Race)
Introduction to Race and Literature (Reading Race in Time Travel)
Identity, Inequality, and the Environment
Topics in Russian History (Soviet Union as a Multiethnic Empire)
Black Women's History
Racism(s) Across the Americas
Advanced Topics in Markets, Innovation and Design (1 course credit) (Marketing for Social Impact)
Philosophy and Race
Latin American, Latinx and Caribbean Philosophy
Race Ethnicity and American Politics
Race and Ethnicity in American Legal Thought
Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
Race and Ethnicity after Technology
Reading Race, Gender and Sexuality
Race and Sexuality
Area or Ethnic Group
Select at least two courses from the list of approved area or ethnic group courses. 22
Anthropology of Native North America
Religions in Africa: Spirits, Saints, and Sufis
Immigrant Youth in U.S. Society
Special Topics in American Literature (Beyond Rum and Revolution: imagining Cuba from the Diaspora)
US Latino/a Literature (Growing Up Latinx)
Studies in Dramatic Literature (Margins to the Mainstream: US Latino/a Theatre & Film)
Studies in Dramatic Literature (The Theatre of the Civil Rights Movement)
Studies-Selected American Authors (Melville's Sea, Faulkner's South, Morrison's Song)
Introduction to African American Literature
Ethnic Comedy in the United States
Questioning the Post-Racial
Caribbean Literature
Jewish American Comedy: Stage, Screen, Stand-up
Special Topics (Affrilachia, Race, Power, and Regional Literature)
US: Fever/Fantasy/Desire
Seminar in Contemporary American Literature (Book Banning and US Latinx Literature)
Race & Gender in the 18th Century
Topics in Francophone Literature and Culture (French West Indies)
Holocaust Literature
German Jewish Identities
Never Again?: Antisemitism
American West
Topics in American History (Native American History)
American Revolution (African Americans and the American Revolution)
American Abolition (Slavery)
U.S. History from the 1940s to the Present (When taught by Jennifer Thomson)
Gender in Africa
African-American History (Terror and the Black Struggle)
Latin America: An Introduction
Identity, Politics, Nation
Language and Race
Music and Culture: Jazz and Social Justice
Music and Culture: Jazz, Rock, and Race
Gender, Race and Poverty in the United States
White Privilege and Whiteness Seminar
Integrated Perspectives Course (Modern Africa)
Reading Race, Gender and Sexuality
Women and the Penal System
1

The list of approved comparative/theoretical courses is available on the website of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Gender (bucknell.edu/csreg.xml).

2

The list of approved area or ethnic group courses is available on the website of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Gender (bucknell.edu/csreg.xml).

  • The fifth course may be selected from any of the three categories.
  • Any given course may not count for more than one category.
  • At least one course in the social sciences and one course in the humanities are required.
  • No more than one 100-level course may count toward the minor.
  • Students are encouraged to take the core course as early as possible.
  • Courses other than those on the approved list may be approved by the Coordinating Committee on a case-by-case basis upon request of the student. These include interdisciplinary courses that span the humanities and social sciences, and courses in the natural sciences.
  • Students are encouraged to discuss their selection of courses for the minor with a member of the Coordinating Committee.
  • Students may request that study abroad courses be considered for the minor. The Coordinating Committee will consider such courses upon review of the syllabus.

Faculty

Coordinating Committee: Cymone Fourshey, Susan A. Reed