A Counter Narrative Analysis

Read:  An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States: Introduction-Chapter 2

An Overview of Ethnic Studies/Race & Resistance StudiesPage

Ethnic Studies! 

Mission & Purpose: The College of Ethnic Studies provides safe academic spaces for all to learn the histories, cultures, and intellectual traditions of Native peoples and communities of color in the U.S. in the first-person and also practice theories of resistance and liberation to eliminate racism and other forms of oppression.

The College was founded on principles of community based research and teaching, student leadership and activism, and the self-determination of communities of color. Its work is anchored in, but not limited to, social justice movements among indigenous and oppressed peoples of the United States. More than forty years ago the College of Ethnic Studies emerged from a collective struggle for self-determination and this quest continues to be the organizing principle of the college.

We recognize the validity of multiple paradigms in the construction of knowledge and encourage the integrated study of all aspects of the human experience. Our commitment to self-determination is reflected in the College's founding curricular emphases on liberatory student-centered pedagogies and community participatory learning that promote creative thinking on combating social problems and disparities in communities of color and indigenous peoples.

Race and Resistance Studies Department: 

The program in Race and Resistance Studies offers coursework that examines how institutions such as education, healthcare, penal systems, and popular culture affect and oppress communities of color and Native peoples. More importantly, students examine the creative and complex ways in communities of color and Native peoples respond and resist institutional and social inequality. In doing so, program curriculum explores how domestic issues are shaped by transnational processes and how oppressions and resistances are shaped by intersections of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality. The Race and Resistance Studies Program offers a minor undergraduate degree. Additionally, the program houses new areas of study that may become free-standing units. Currently, we are in the midst of implementing our newest initiative in  Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diaspora (AMED) Studies . (SFSU Website)  http://ethnicstudies.sfsu.edu/depts2

Type a 1 page, double space essay: How does this book offer a Counter-Narrative perspective in understanding U.S. hxstory? Use examples from reading while connecting to the definitions of Counter-Narrative.