While the pathway to creating a Department of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz was a challenging decades-long effort, its arrival couldn’t have come at a more important time as ...

“WHERE IN THE WORLD IS UCHICAGO’S RACE AND ETHNIC STUDIES?” So ask the bold letters on the cover of the zine published by UChicago United’s Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) Working Group.

Students gathered at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture (CSRPC) last Monday evening for a town hall meeting about the proposed creation of a Department of Race and Ethnic Studies.