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 American Philosophical Association awarded UD philosopher Ernesto Rosen Velasquez the 2021 Essay Prize in Latin American Thought.
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The University of Dayton’s new Latinx and Latin American Studies minor allows students from those backgrounds to see themselves in the curriculum, while also preparing students from other backgrounds to increase their knowledge and understanding of the historical and contemporary issues of the nation’s fastest-growing ethnic group.
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