Executive Summary
De Anza College offers ethnic studies courses that include content such as critical race theory, tenets of queer theory, and whiteness.
Courses
CETH10: Race, Ethnicity & Inequality
The course CETH10: Race, Ethnicity & Inequality includes course objectives such as whiteness, blackness, racism, liberation, anti-racist and anti-colonial issues.
The course description states that it is an “interdisciplinary examination of major concepts and controversies in the study of race, racial inequality, and racism in the United States” where students will “explore race and ethnicity as historical and contemporary categories of identification, focusing on the lived experiences and racialized subordination of African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinx Americans, and Native Americans.”
ICS 10: Introduction to African American Studies
The course ICS 10: Introduction to African American Studies includes learning and outcomes such as institutional racism, classism, sexism, homophobia, oppression, and tenets of queer theory.
The course description states that it is an ethnic studies course that is “an interdisciplinary, multi-perspective, critical analysis, and comparative study of the broad-based survey of African American life and culture.”
ASAM 11: Asian Americans and Racism
The course ASAM 11: Asian Americans and Racism includes topics such as Black Lives Matter, critical race theory, intersectionality, tenets of queer theory, and xenophobia.
The course description asks “Do Asian Americans experience racism? What are the patterns of racialization faced by Asian Americans, and how have they shifted across time and in different places?” and “How are we to make sense of the racialized positioning of Asian Americans, particularly in the context of anti-Blackness and whiteness?“
