CRES - Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

CRES 10 Critical Race and Ethnic Studies: An Introduction

Examines the concept of race, followed by an investigation of colorblindness, multiculturalism, and post-racialism. Race and ethnicity are examined as historically formulated in relationship to the concepts of gender, sexuality, class, nationalism, indigeneity, citizenship, immigration, and inequality.

Credits

5

Instructor

Nick Mitchell

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): Satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing requirement.

General Education Code

ER

Quarter offered

Fall, Summer

CRES 15 Resource Centers Service Learning Course

This service learning course offers students of all majors the opportunity to intern at UCSC Resource Centers. Students organize educational community-oriented programs and projects to address retention and equity issues in higher education. Through this course, students develop critical thinking, problem-solving, project planning, and writing skills by combining theoretical concepts and experiential learning experience. Students explore texts that highlight resiliency of minoritized communities through the study of trans, queer, Asian American/Pacific Islander, Black, American Indian, Chicanx/Latinx, undocumented, and feminist political thought.

Credits

5

Instructor

Staff

General Education Code

PR-S

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

CRES 45 Pilipinx Historical Dialogue

Examines the history, politics, and cultural expressions of the Pilipinx community, in the Philippines and the diaspora, with an emphasis on Pilipinx and Pilipinx-American activism.

Credits

5

Instructor

The Staff

General Education Code

ER

Quarter offered

Spring

CRES 60E Blackness and Indigeneity in Europe

What are the contours of Black Europe? This course emphasizes a range of disciplinary approaches to the concepts of blackness and indigeneity, introducing and questioning Black Europe as a field, a culture, and a set of ideologies.

Credits

5

Instructor

Samantha The Staff

General Education Code

ER

CRES 68 Approaches to Black Studies

Provides a diasporic approach to the field of Black Studies in the modern era, with a focus on histories of dispossession and resistance.

Credits

5

Instructor

Xavier Livermon

General Education Code

ER

Quarter offered

Fall

CRES 70S Introduction to the Sikhs

Introduces the Sikh community, including its origins, history, belief system and contemporary challenges. Other topics include Sikh music, art, literature, and aspects of Sikh society. Specific attention is paid to the Sikh diaspora community in the United States, and in California in particular, including comparative perspectives with respect to other minority communities.

Credits

2

Instructor

Talib Jabbar

Quarter offered

Winter

CRES 70U (Un)docu Studies

Legal papers, as a violent affirmation of settler sovereignty, do not capture the complexities of who we are, much less all our relations--to each other, to place, to life worlds. In this class, by exploring those complexities, we strive to create a communal space where we courageously articulate self, community, and relationality in ways that state documents must disavow.

Credits

5

Quarter offered

Winter

CRES 94 Group Tutorial

A lower-division group tutorial, led by a faculty member, that focuses on various problems within critical race and ethnic studies. Topics to be chosen by the instructor and undergraduate student participants. Enrollment is restricted to critical race and ethnic studies majors.

Credits

5

Instructor

The Staff

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

CRES 94F Group Tutorial

A program of independent study arranged between a group of students and a faculty instructor. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. Enrollment is restricted to critical race and ethnic studies majors.

Credits

2

Instructor

The Staff

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

CRES 99 Tutorial

Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Credits

5

Instructor

The Staff

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

CRES 100 Comparative Theories of Race and Ethnicity

Examines race and ethnicity as categories of lived identity intersecting with gender, sexuality, class, and culture; historical discourses of difference underwriting social inequalities and movements to redress those inequalities; and concepts critical to the understanding and reshaping of power and privilege.

Credits

5

Instructor

Neel Ahuja

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): CRES 10 and satisfaction of the Entry Level and Composition requirements.

General Education Code

ER

Quarter offered

Winter

CRES 101 Research Methods and Writing in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

Examines how scholars and activists produce knowledge in critical race and ethnic studies. Interrogates key terms to build a foundation and literacy in research methods. The course is project-based; and requires work on a team.

Credits

5

Instructor

Jenny Kelly

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): CRES 10 and satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements.

Quarter offered

Spring

CRES 111 The Sounds of Struggle

Explores relations between music and democratic politics. Is harmony the ideal condition of the nation-state? Is disharmony a necessary condition of democracy? Students read literary texts alongside political philosophy and listen to music as we explore how musical recordings and performances produce our understanding of the citizen-nation relationship.

Credits

5

General Education Code

ER

CRES 112 AsianAm Enviro Justice

Explores the concept of environmental racism in a transnational framework, focusing on the shaping of Asian American and Pacific Islander communities in the United States and in the current and former territories of U.S. empire in the Pacific. Students explore environmental racism within the historical contexts of U.S. militarism and imperial warfare, empire and settler colonialism, disasters and disaster aid, and climate change refugeehood.

Credits

5

Instructor

Danielle Crawford

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

CRES 114 Race and Disability in American Drama

Investigates how African-American, Asian-American, and Latin-American playwrights represent and criticize the concept of race and disability in their dramas on topics from freak shows to Jim Crow laws to the Virginia Tech massacre. Students cannot receive credit for this course and LIT 151K.

Credits

5

Instructor

Ka-Eul Yoo

General Education Code

IM

Quarter offered

Summer

CRES 116 Race and the Pacific: U.S. and Japanese Empires in Comparative Perspective

A lens on the U.S. and Japanese empires that moves beyond the limits of traditional area and ethnic studies by thinking comparatively about the racial logic of empire. Examines how the U.S. and Japanese empires as rival powers that from the early 20th century onward, have competed against and conspired with each other in Asia and the Pacific.

Credits

5

Instructor

Yuki Obayashi

General Education Code

CC

Quarter offered

Winter

CRES 118 Abolitionist Futures

Grounded in local, national, and global prison abolition movements, this course explores through feminist political frameworks creative strategies that imagine and work to end all systems of domination and exploitation. Looks at California's prisoner organizing and abolition movements, along with other historic and contemporary social movements which deepen our understandings of the ways in which carceral systems are shaped by and through capitalist formations of race, gender, sexuality, and disability. Also examines strategies such as disability justice and transformative justice which demonstrate expansive and liberatory visions of abolition, extending far beyond the prison system itself.

Credits

5

Quarter offered

Summer

CRES 131 Black Freedom Movements

Examines the development of Black freedom movements ranging from resistance to slavery to contemporary movements for Black power in Jackson, Mississippi. Interdisciplinary in scope, course examines a variety of materials ranging from novels, to autobiographies, to political manifestos in order to understand fully the broad scope of Black freedom movements.

Credits

5

Instructor

Xavier Livermon

General Education Code

ER

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer

CRES 150 Race, Gender and Algorithms

Algorithms shape race and gender today, yet algorithms are older than digital media and can be understood as recipes or rituals. Course engages with the emerging field of trans of color poetics by studying readings in women of color feminism, transgender studies, and decolonial theory. Digital media art grounds the discussion, including works from queer and trans artists of color working in digital games, anti-surveillance fashion and performance art. Students create digital media projects in response to the ideas of the course, in the medium or platform of their choice, including video prototypes, web sites, Scalar books, Twine games, podcasts and/or video channels, the technical aspects of which will be covered in class.

Credits

5

Instructor

Micha Cardenas

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer

CRES 181 The Lynch Doctrine: From Rough Justice to Stand Your Ground

Interdisciplinary course examining the history, politics, and aesthetics of lynching culture in the United States.

Credits

5

Instructor

The Staff

General Education Code

ER

CRES 185A Race, Gender, and Science

Examines how science as epistemology and its accompanying practices participate in, create, and are created by understandings of race, gender, sexuality, and nation.

Credits

5

Instructor

The Staff

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to critical race and ethnic studies majors. Other majors by permission.

CRES 188A Topics in Transnational Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies

Focuses on a particular topic in Asian American and Pacific Islander studies. Topics vary with each offering but might include approaching racial and ethnic formations through a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, with a focus on a transnational critique of intellectual histories, political movements, cultural expressions, lived experiences and critical theories of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.

Credits

5

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer

CRES 188B Topics in Black Studies

Focuses on a particular topic in black studies. Topics vary with each offering but might include approaching racial and ethnic formations through a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, with a focus on the intellectual histories, political movements, cultural expressions, lived experiences, and critical theories of peoples throughout the Black diaspora and Africa.

Credits

5

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer

CRES 188X Topics in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

Focuses on a particular topic in critical race and ethnic studies. Topics vary with each offering but might include approaching racial and ethnic formations through a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, including indigenous studies, Black studies, Latinx studies, Asian American studies, queer critique, gender studies, transgender studies, performance studies, human rights studies, mixed race studies, legal studies, critical area studies, war and empire studies, environmental studies, science studies, and critical university studies.

Credits

5

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

CRES 190A Critical Race Feminisms

Focuses on key learning outcomes of humanistic research and writing: developing a method for critical race feminist analysis, identifying objects and fields of study, formulating an appropriately narrow topic and thesis, identifying and critiquing sources, and completing well-structured written argumentation. Readings offer key theoretical models in critical race and ethnic studies, feminist studies, and queer theory.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

FMST 194S

Instructor

Neel Ahuja

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): CRES 10 and CRES 100; and satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to critical race and ethnic studies majors.

CRES 190B Critical Migration Studies

Focuses on critically analyzing public representations of migration. Exploring key scholarship in migration and diaspora studies, including recent writings on "border crises," students develop an individual research project exploring a controversy, archive, cultural text, or historical debate in research on a specific migrant or diasporic group. The focus is on key learning outcomes of humanistic research and writing: developing a method for studying migration attentive to critical race analysis; identifying objects and fields of study, formulating research questions, organizing an appropriately narrow thesis, identifying and critiquing sources, and completing well-structured written argumentation.

Credits

5

Instructor

Neel Ahuja

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): CRES 10 and CRES 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior critical race and ethnic studies majors.

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

CRES 190D Black Geographies and the Imperative of Abolition

Far from a recent development, abolitionist demands to defund the police are actually central to a 400-year legacy of Black struggle. In the wake of the 2020 Black Lives Matter uprisings that erupted in response to several high-profile police murders, this senior seminar takes an interdisciplinary look at the burgeoning field of Black geographies to help us understand the renewed urgency of these calls in our current moment by engaging with works of activism, speculative fiction, and multimedia, including videos, podcasts, music, websites, and graphics.

Credits

5

Instructor

Camilla Hawthorne

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): CRES 10 and CRES 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior critical race and ethnic studies majors.

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

CRES 190P Trans of Color Movements in Media, Art and Performance

Trans of color poetics are emerging in media art and performance, the voice of movements for liberation from colonial systems of racialized gender, and the structures which uphold them, including the prison-industrial complex. Trans people of color, and people who exist in resistance to colonial gender constructs are responding to the ways that both popular media and academic fields such as transgender studies have focused on white, wealthy, normative transgender subjects. Seminar considers the social movements and the embodied movement of trans people of color and gender non-conforming people in media, art and performance.

Credits

5

Instructor

Micha Cardenas

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): CRES 10 and CRES 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior critical race and ethnic studies majors.

Quarter offered

Winter

CRES 190S From Slavery to Precarity: Race, Logistics and Globalization

Over the past half-century, there has been a profound transformation in the way that goods are produced and moved about the world resulting in what has been referred to as the "logistics revolution". Course examines the ways in which this "revolution" in mass circulation of goods necessitates a radical thinking of race and racial politics in the context of contemporary capitalist globalization.

Credits

5

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): CRES 10 and CRES 100; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior critical race and ethnic studies majors.

CRES 190T The War on Terror: Imperialism Past and Present

Senior seminar focusing on the theoretical underpinnings of U.S. imperialism from a global perspective, from the annexation of the Philippines in 1898 to the current War on Terror. Drawing on the history of U.S. settler-colonialism and liberal empire as racial projects, the course investigates contemporary forms of racialization surrounding the Muslim as figure for foreign enemy. Utilizing a diverse range of media, course considers various theoretical texts in critical race and ethnic studies, visual studies, gender and queer studies, history, and literature.

Credits

5

Instructor

Jabbar Talib

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): CRES 10 and CRES 100 and satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to senior critical race and ethnic studies majors.

Quarter offered

Fall

CRES 192 Directed Student Teaching

Teaching of a lower-division seminar by an upper-division student under faculty supervision. (See CRES 42.)

Credits

5

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

CRES 194 Group Tutorial

Group tutorial, led by a faculty member, that focuses on various problems within critical race and ethnic studies. Topics to be chosen by the instructor and undergraduate student participants. Enrollment restricted to critical race and ethnic studies majors.

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

CRES 199 Tutorial

Students submit a petition to the sponsoring agency.

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Spring

CRES 199F Tutorial

Individual study in areas approved by sponsoring instructors. May not be counted toward upper-division major requirements. Student submits petition to sponsoring agency. Enrollment is restricted to critical race and ethnic studies majors.

Credits

2

Instructor

The Staff

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

CRES 200 Black Studies Methods

Exploration of interdisciplinary research methodology—a broader set of scientific beliefs, approaches, inquiries, theories, and analytics—relevant to the study of Black communities. Students read, explore, and engage in particular methods—approaches to data collection and analyses—emphasizing various forms of ethnographic research. Course also examines other approaches to the study of Blackness, such as historical/archival, cultural studies and discursive analyses, and mixed methods.

Credits

5

Instructor

Xavier Livermon

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Quarter offered

Fall

CRES 297A Independent Study

Independent study and research under faculty supervision. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring