If you’re looking to get schooled on something unrelated to school, San Francisco State University’s got you covered.
Instead of sticking to classics such literature, science or law, SFSU has launched a revolutionary major: “Race and Resistance Studies.”
Some people may consider the race of a person to be an insidious lens by which they view the world. But, these relics are being increasingly eclipsed due to public messaging from universities and other institutions. If you haven’t heard, skin shade is the new “content of their character.”
San Fran State continues to keep up with modern times. Hence, the undergraduate study plan’s mission statement:
Race and Resistance Studies’ mission is to help students think critically and foster a sense of social responsibility. It also helps them to engage in and respond to communities needs. To do so, Race and Resistance Studies utilizes an approach that is comparative/relational, interdisciplinary, intersectional, and centered in a praxis of resistance.
Per SFSU.edu, the program is “committed to the study of race-related processes underlying many social problems and the forms of resistance and struggle aimed at social justice.”
Non-whites suffer from disadvantage; or, in other words: Whites make all others less fortunate.
Our program explores these processes through a comparative and relational approach — examining how people of color and indigenous people face and resist social inequalities. The comparative approach allows us to contrast and compare the different experiences of different groups.
The program “provides students with a multi-faceted understanding of the forms of oppression and struggles for change.”
The intersectionality of the two is at its forefront.
Our curriculum emphasizes intersectionality — the critical analysis of the ways in which existing knowledge structures such as race, class, gender, sexuality, nationality, and religion can work to erase, elide, and oppress subjects who occupy more than one position. … Race and Resistance Studies examines how social problems are fueled by racial and ethnic discrimination by drawing from these multiple methodologies.
What can the school expect graduates to do with this new knowledge? This:
Our degree will produce cohorts of highly motivated, critical thinkers and socially engaged students who will use their analytic frameworks to build upon existing service and organizing work among disenfranchised communities of color in the U.S. and abroad. The goal of our program is to unite theory/study as well as practice. practice/organizing.
It’s certainly not the first time a college has formerly prepared activists:
Florida University Launches a Degree Program to Train ‘Social Justice’ Activists
University Announces ‘Racial Justice, Equity and Inclusion’ Program, Preparing Students for ‘Success’ in Government
State University Launches a Graduate Program in ‘Antiracism’
Major University Launches Racial Justice Center, Funds Nonwhite Initiatives and Offers ‘Masterclass in Activism’
As reported by Campus Reform, San Francisco State University students will learn to fight the power via course RRS 520: “Race, Radicalism and Revolution.”
We also offer the following:
- RRS 350 Race, Labor, and Class
- RRS 290 Sounds of Resistance: Race, Rhythm, Rhyme, and Revolution
- RRS 380 Coloring Queer: Imagining Communities
- RRS 460 AIDS and People of Color in the U.S.
- RRS 480 Youth Culture, Race and Resistance
- RRS 490 Race, Art, and Social Justice
- RRS 473 Slavery and Antislavery in the United States
I’d guess that none of the above takes a “We Are the World” approach. But at least SFSU is promoting nonwhite gut health — bon appétit to those in RRS 304 Decolonize Your Diet: Food Justice and Gendered Labor in Communities of Color.
There are no more old-school academics. As far as I know, the system of public education is primarily used for ideology instruction.
Perhaps in the eyes of Uncle Sam, it’s guiding young Americans to be good citizens. But I doubt it’s teaching them to view their fellow citizens as good.
-ALEX
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