Workshops

We offer free 2-hour workshops on different topics within Ethnic Studies. These workshops serve to be a means to learn about Ethnic Studies in more of a classroom format rather than an a self-study format. It is entirely possible to learn about this topics without taking the workshops. Check Learning with ES4A to read about how to best utilize Ethnic Studies 4 All in self-study formats.

The workshops will consist of discussions, activities, and reflection time within a lecture-like format and are designed for a session of up to 30 individuals. These workshops will be conducted online through Zoom.

Please email us at ethnicstudies4all@gmail.com for questions and reservations.

Who Are We?: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality

This workshops explores different ways that race, ethnicity, and nationality have been conceptualized. It will explain the differences between the 3, alongside the ways that the three overlap. It will also explore the history of terminology, and the ways that identities within race, ethnicity, and nationality have changed and shifted over time.

Guiding Texts:

  • Racial Formations (1986), Michael Omi and Howard Winant

  • Worked to the Bone (2001), Pem Davidson Buck

  • Fatal Intervention (2011), Dorothy Roberts

Defining Racism: Discrimination, Prejudice, and Oppression

This workshops explores racism, how it works, and how it manifests. It will delve into racism on different levels, exploring discrimination and microaggressions, racism as prejudice, and the perceptions and myths of racism. Alongside this, it will explore the dynamics of different races within racism and how those who stay in power maintain it.

Guiding Texts:

  • Cycle of Socialization (1982), Bobbie Harro

  • Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (1997), Beverly Tatum

  • Color-Blind Racism (2001), Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

More Than Just Race: Exploring the Theory of Intersectionality

This workshops explores the theory of intersectionality, its origins, and its application. It will look at how intersectionality inform us about our own identities and experiences, but more importantly, how we can conceptualize systems of oppression.

Guiding Texts:

  • Combahee River Collective Statement (1977), Combahee River Collective

  • Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color (1989), Kimberlé Crenshaw

  • On the Specificities of Racial Formations: Gender and Sexuality in Historiographies of Race (2012), Roderick A. Ferguson

It is recommended that this workshop is taken with a level of knowledge of identity, power, and systems of oppression to best understand the theory of intersectionality. Not all those interested in reserving this workshop will be accepted-- there will be a preliminary survey to explore the group's understanding of the topics beforehand.

Workshop Topics Coming Soon

  • Exploring the Relationship of Science and Racism (April 2021)

  • Issues of Immigration, Citizenship, and Transnational Families (April 2021)

  • History of the United States Series (May & June 2021)

    • Past, Present, and Future: Social Movements in the United States (May 2021)

    • Chained and Shackled: From Slavery to the Prison-Industrial Complex (May 2021)

    • A Brief History of Indigenous Peoples in the United States (May 2021)

    • A Brief History of Asian People in the United States (June 2021)

    • A Brief History of Latinx/e People in the United States (June 2021)

    • We the People: The Formation of Whiteness within the United States (June 2021)

  • Gender & Sexuality Series (TBD)

    • Men of Color in the United States (TBD)

    • Women of Color in the United States (TBD)

    • Queer People of Color in the United States (TBD)

    • Transgender People of Color in the United States (TBD)

    • Issues of Sexual Health in Communities of Color (TBD)

  • Media and Cultures Series (TBD)

    • Representations of People of Color in Media and Culture (TBD)

    • Representations of Women of Color in Media and Culture (TBD)

    • Representations of Whiteness in Media and Culture (TBD)