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Welcome

The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race is an interdisciplinary space that has a pedagogical mission in the College and a research mission for the Columbia community as a whole. CSER is the home of three undergraduate majors: Asian-American Studies, Comparative Ethnic Studies, and Latino/a Studies. The Center privileges the analysis of contemporary and historical social formations from the perspective of minoritized social groups. CSER favors socially pertinent work and keen engagement in a politics of recognition.

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Center Highlights

October 17: Director Frances Negron-Muntaner interviews CNN's special correspondent Soledad O'Brien about her upcoming documentary Latino in America at El Museo del Barrio.

July 2009: Professor Frances Negron-Muntaner is appointed the new Director of CSER.

Click on one of the following links for information on courses in Asian American Studies, Comparative Ethnic Studies & Latino/a Studies.

For more news about the happenings at CSER, please read our note, From the Director.

Recent Happenings

September 24: The CSER Fall Welcome Reception was a great success. Thank you to everyone who made it out for the occasion. And a special thanks to Hector Martignon and Alex Hernandez for their wonderful performance!

May 1st and 2nd: BORDERS & BOUNDARIES
A conference and roundtable discussion on the connections between international borders and social boundaries in the contemporary world.

April 24th: 2009 Annual Undergraduate Conference on Ethnicity and Race "Community and Institution: Sites of Racial and Ethnic Subjectivation and Resistance".

CSER welcomes President Lee C. Bollinger to the Center for a briefing on the state of CSER and its activities.