The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race in America
The Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Brown University welcomes you. We are an interdisciplinary research center which facilitates and promotes teaching, research, conferences, symposia and other programs on issues impacting African American, Asian American, Latino, Native American, Middle Eastern, biracial and multiracial peoples. The Center emphasizes the interdisciplinary and comparative study of these groups and promotes analytical studies of race, ethnicity, gender, and class. Within Brown University, the Center works with departments and faculty who share similar goals and interests.
Brown University has a long and distinguished history of recognizing and encouraging diversity, exemplified not merely in the racial composition of the student body, but also academically. The development of an Ethnic Studies concentration continues this trend of recognizing pluralism and diversity. ...more
Our Mission
The Center was established through the initiative of faculty members from a number of departments who share similar interests or have been involved in the teaching and research on the issues of race and ethnicity in America.
With the recommendation of the Visiting Committee on Minority Life and Education at Brown University and the approval of the Academic Council of the University the Center was created with the following charge:
- To facilitate research on race and ethnicity as social constructions in American society, including comparative studies of analytically similar problems in societies in other parts of the world.
- To coordinate and develop Brown's resources for research and teaching on racial and ethnic minorities in America. ...more
Activities
The Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America hosts a number of year-round activities that help students create ties between their in-class studies and the real world of ethnicity and race issues that surround them. ...more