Small Altars: Ethnic Studies in California and a Living Disciplinary Archive
Ethnic Studies, along with Math and English, are now the three required courses students must take to graduate from a California Community College. This legislation has created a transformational opportunity that will affect 1.2 million students in the world’s largest public education system. To do so requires materials and sources. In a discipline like Ethnic Studies with essential activist and academic foundations, from where do these sources come? How will sources, materials and content in Ethnic Studies adapt as the discipline moves from a racialized endeavor to a mandatory graduation requirement? What is the meaning of legacy for creating a living disciplinary archive?
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