Ethnic Studies
Standards
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Guiding Values & Principles of Ethnic Studies
Given the range and complexity of the field, it is important to identify the key values of ethnic studies as a means to offer guidance for the development of ethnic studies courses, teaching, and learning.
The foundational values of ethnic studies are housed in the conceptual model of the “double helix,” which interweaves holistic humanization and critical consciousness. Humanization includes the values of love, respect, hope, and solidarity, which are based on celebration of community cultural wealth. The values rooted in humanization and critical consciousness are the guiding values each ethnic studies lesson should include.
Ethnic studies courses, teaching, and learning are intended to do the following:
Ethnic studies courses, teaching, and learning are intended to do the following:
Empathy & Well-Being
Cultivate empathy, community actualization, cultural perpetuity, self-worth, self-determination, and the holistic well-being of all participants, especially Native People/s and Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC).
Honoring Cultural Narratives
Celebrate and honor Native People/s of the land and communities of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, by providing a space to share their stories of success, community collaboration, and solidarity, along with their intellectual and cultural wealth.
Valuing Ancestral Knowledge
Center and place high value on the precolonial, Indigenous, diasporic, familial, ancestral knowledge, narratives, and communal experiences of Native People/s and people of color and groups that are typically marginalized in society.
Critiquing Power & Oppression
Critique empire building in history and its relationship to white supremacy, racism, anti-Blackness, anti-Indigeneity, anti-Asian Hate, xenophobia, antisemitism, Islamophobia; patriarchy, misogyny, cisheteropatriarchy, transphobia; exploitative economic systems; ableism; ageism; anthropocentrism; and other forms of power and oppression.
Challenging Discrimination
Challenge racist, bigoted, discriminatory, and imperialist/colonial hegemonic beliefs and practices on multiple levels (ideological, institutional, interpersonal, and internalized).
Social Movements & Justice
Connect ourselves to past and contemporary social movements that struggle for social justice and an equitable and democratic society, and; conceptualize, imagine, and build new possibilities for a post-racist, post-systemic-racism society that promotes collective narratives of
transformative resistance, critical hope, and radical healing.
THE ETHNIC STUDIES STANDARDS
