Benicia Unified School District’s ethnic studies course for 11th and 12th graders focuses on identity, power, and oppression. Linked course materials feature content such as “Black Marxism,” critical race theory, drag pedagogy, white supremacy, and whiteness.

The description states that the course is “designed to develop an understanding of how race, ethnicity, nationality, and culture have shaped and continue to shape individuals and society in the United States” and focuses on “themes of social justice, social responsibility, and social change.”

Themes for the course include “identity,” “history and movement,” “systems of power,” and “social movements and equity.” Guiding outcomes include a “pursuit of justice and equity,” “recognizing intersectionality,” and “promoting self-empowerment for civic engagement.”

Course materials include content such as Black Lives Matter, “Black Marxism,” critical race theory, drag pedagogy, white supremacy, whiteness, and “Palestine.”

UC Berkeley’s High School Ethnic Studies Initiative Library Guide gives teachers access to a program site that promotes content such as abolition, antiracist pedagogy, anti-racism, “Black Marxism,” critical race theory, decolonization, defund the police, “Drag Pedagogy,” equitable grading, “Palestine,” and Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire.

The resource Open Educational Resources Initiative includes links to resources that feature topics such as black power, colonialism, intersectionality, systemic racism, whiteness, and white supremacy.