Ethnic Studies Research Guide

The purpose of the Ethnic Studies Changemaker Scaffolding Stories/Building Communities project is to work collaboratively with Ethnic Studies-based students, faculty, and community partners to bridge the gap between Ethnic Studies and technology through the use of podcasting and augmented reality. Our core mission is to amplify the voices and diverse experiences of marginalized communities. This project works to increase accessibility and cultivate a space for creativity and empowerment.

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Listener Michael Viray wrote in to Bay Curious asking to learn more about the origin story behind ethnic studies: “I’ve heard from one of my professors of ethnic studies at UC Davis that there was actually a revolution in the Bay Area for an ethnic studies field. Is this true? And how did it happen?”
Today on Bay Curious, we’re revisiting the longest student strike in U.S. history. We'll learn about the five-month standoff between students and administrators at San Francisco State, that ultimately led to the first College of Ethnic Studies in the nation.

The podcast is unique in that it blends our conceptual frameworks with real actions being undertaken across different communities to remove impediments to belonging. It delivers stories that make the issues we examine resonate with audiences in a different way than scholarship alone. In Who Belongs?, our audience hears directly from people who are deeply engaged in issues around the question over who belongs. Their insights, experiences, and stories provide practical applications for complex issues, and highlight everyday manifestations of sometimes abstract frameworks.

This Land is an American political podcast produced and distributed by Crooked Media and Cadence13, and hosted by Rebecca Nagle.The podcast debuted on June 3, 2019 and follows the United States Supreme Court case Sharp v. Murphy (previously known as Carpenter v. Murphy). In addition, the podcast discusses various Native issues such as land rights, sovereignty issues, and the Indian Child Welfare Act.

Jared Wolf Child and Brody Cole sit down and talk about life in the Wild West of Shaolin Land, Alberta, Canada. Acquainted through stand up comedy, they bring different perspectives on life but still seem to live, love, and laugh together.

After the five media phenoms met and became friends at hip hop's most iconic station, Hot 97, they decided to make their hilarious conversations about life issues, sisterhood, pop culture, love, growth, and the pursuit of their dreams to the public. Listen every week as their differing opinions and life experiences lead them to understand themselves, and the world around them, a little bit better.

The Nod tells the stories of Black life that don’t get told anywhere else, from an explanation of how purple drink became associated with Black culture to the story of how an interracial drag troupe traveled the nation in the 1940s. We celebrate the genius, the innovation, and the resilience that is so particular to being Black -- in America, and around the world.

Two proud Latinas discuss Latinx representation in film and television through their lens.

Latino USA offers insight into the lived experiences of Latino communities and is a window on the current and merging cultural, political and social ideas impacting Latinos and the nation.

From the Los Angeles Times, “Asian Enough” is a podcast about being Asian American -- the joys, the complications and everything in between. In each episode, hosts Jen Yamato, Johana Bhuiyan, Tracy Brown and Suhauna Hussain of the Times invite special guests to share personal stories and unpack identity on their own terms. They explore the vast diaspora across cultures, backgrounds and generations, and try to expand the ways in which being Asian American is defined.

With the struggle for civil rights and the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, students were expressing an interest in classes that explored black history and culture. San Francisco State University (SF State) was a college with a mostly white student body and the Black Student Union began to question whether their own education was failing them. They started to demand curriculum that reflected their lives and a better representation of faculty of color. And with these demands from the Black Student Union, Asian American students took note.

"If you know history, you know yourself."
In the wake of the 1960s and 70s-era struggles to establish ethnic studies at colleges on the West Coast, scholars and activists are finding new venues to support radical changes and learning about one’s identity.
One such venue is San Quentin Prison in California, where volunteers have been teaching an ethnic studies program to mostly Southeast Asian refugees. Since 2013, the Restoring Our Original True Selves (ROOTS) program, organized by the Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC), offers participants at San Quentin the opportunity to learn about immigration and refugee history, intergenerational trauma, leadership development, and planning to re-enter life after prison.

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​​Learn how the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 reflected the rampant scapegoating and stereotyping of the Chinese workers. This law barred Chinese laborers from entering the country, only allowing Chinese students, teachers, travelers, merchants, and diplomats to still apply for admission. This also marked the start of required immigration documents that the Chinese were required to hold on to their person to avoid deportation. The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first in a series of laws explicitly used to limit immigration based on race. The law changed the landscape for American immigration and set a precedent in policy-making for generations to come.

This video looks at the problem of representation of indigenous people in Hollywood films in 1966 and the ways in which Buffy St Marie’s role in The Virginians and insistence that “native” cast members be played by “native” people was both revolutionary and powerful.