Critical Ethnic Studies and the Future of Genocide: Settler Colonialism/White Supremacy/Heteropatriarchy

Dylan Rodríguez
NAEthnic Studies
UC Riverside

Andrea Smith
Media and Cultural Studies
UC Riverside


Interrogating the strictures in which ethnic studies finds itself today, this conference calls for the development of critical ethnic studies. Far from advocating the peremptory dismissal of identity, this conference seeks to structure inquiry around the logics of white supremacy, settler colonialism, capitalism, and heteropatriarchy in order to expand the scope of ethnic studies