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Race Ethnicity Politics
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Frank Gilliam
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The field of Race, Ethnicity and Politics at UCLA is a hybrid field built around the problem of racial and ethnic difference and modern politics. UCLA is one of the only political science departments to have a Race, Ethnicity and Politics field and perhaps the only to move beyond thinking of the problem of race as confined to American politics in an institutional way. The field includes faculty and students who associate with all of the subfield in political science but whose work primarily is engaged in studying the relationship between governance, policies, conflict, and attitudes through the lens of race and ethnicity. The field encourages cross-subfield work and cross-disciplinary work toward understanding modern phenomena like nation building, citizenship, social movements, ethnic conflict, elections, immigration and a host of other political phenomena. The faculty and students in the REP field at UCLA have varied interests. Regionally scholars associated with the REP study the United States, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Southeastern Asia, and Western Europe. Methods in the field range from the formal modeling to ethnographic and there is a strong fusion between political theory and empirical study of racial-ethnic politics. Theoretical approaches to conceptions of race, empire, citizenship, multiculturalism and other issues frame a common discussion that defines the parameters of the field. The REP field serves as a unique space where field and subfield boundaries and methodological differences that divide other forms of political science can exist in a harmonious conversation around the problem of race and ethnicity. We have a range of students that study race from approaches informed by International Relations, Comparative Politics, American Politics, Political Theory, and Methodology. We hope to attract students who are interested in studying race from all available approaches and in all contexts where race, and ethnicity are central political issues. We believe REP to be an exciting new field that captures one of the most interesting, vexing and vibrant political problems in modern societies. |
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