Ethnic Studies
Jessica Ordaz argues that citizens should not be surprised by news of abuses, encourages student activism that lies ‘at the heart’ of ethnic studies.
Never officially recognized during her lifetime, the first African American woman to graduate from the University of Colorado was posthumously honored this spring. Now, a biography telling the long-overlooked story of Lucile Berkeley Buchanan has been published.
Born in Mexico and raised in Colorado, Herrera first set foot on campus as a junior transfer student intent on degrees in French and Italian, but he unexpectedly discovered a new passion.
In the five decades since a landmark presidential commission on crime, cops and courts have begun taking domestic violence more seriously, but much work remains to be done, says Joanne Belknap, a Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ professor of ethnic studies.
Tipped off by a newspaper story, Polly McLean spent more than a decade exhuming Buchanan’s story and, finally, correcting history. For decades, CU's official history stated that the first black woman to graduate from Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØearned her degree in 1924. But that was wrong.
The first African American woman to graduate from CU, in 1918, earned her degree in German. A trio of experts this month will discuss the historical trends that framed her choice.
The consequences of the DACA program—and its uncertain future—is the subject of the next Social Sciences Today Forum at the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ.
Native American and indigenous studies professor designs research relevant to tribal communities and the academy.
Bands of Texans, some operating under the auspices of the legal system, engaged in mob violence against scores of Mexicans during the early 20th century, and these killings were not originally recognized as lynchings, according to research published in a book by a Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder instructor.
Higher education has always been important to Esmeralda Castillo-Cobian, an ethnic studies major at the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ. But coming from a low-income family, she sometimes felt that college was out of reach.