Race and Ethnic Studies
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This interdisciplinary academic program focuses on developing students' intercultural competencies through the lens of race, ethnicity, and social justice. The goal of the program is to cultivate the intersectional thinking necessary to address systemic differences in power in order to pursue equity, inclusion, and forward the University's mission of serving the common good.
The program offers minors in Africana Studies, Latinx and Latin American Studies and Race and Social Justice.
The Minor in Africana Studies
This minor is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the peoples of Africa and African descendants in the Americas, Africa, and throughout the diaspora.
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This minor offers interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to the study of these identities and their complex socio-historical contexts.
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This minor is designed to develop students' intercultural competencies by focusing primarily on the experiences of American-based domestic racial and ethnic populations.
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The University of Dayton’s efforts to build connections with America’s Indigenous communities extend from campus to the Black Hills of South Dakota.
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The American Philosophical Association awarded UD philosopher Ernesto Rosen Velasquez the 2021 Essay Prize in Latin American Thought.
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