The Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity
Comparative Race and Ethnicity Courses
The Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) provides the institutional structure, resources and expertise necessary to initiate, organize and sustain critical discourses on race, ethnicity and Indigeneity. Within these discourses it centers questions of power, structural inequality and social justice, undertaking examinations in a comparative, relational and multi-disciplinary fashion. In so doing, it pushes the discourse beyond traditional national, disciplinary and conceptual boundaries of race, ethnicity, and Indigeneity. The Center also serves as the intellectual home for students, staff and faculty working across categories of race, class, gender, age, sexuality, religion and nation, creating the space for cross-fertilization and critical solidarities. In addition to examining broader systems of inequality and the processes by which they change and persist, the center also engages faculty, students and staff in the evaluation of institutional policies and practices, working toward greater educational equity and justice.