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🕺🏽Ethnic Studies
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512 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Ethnic Studies exam

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1968 Third World Liberation Front
1970s ethnic studies revolts

A

Abolition Movements
Aboriginal Dreamtime
Accent discrimination
Access to healthcare
Acculturative stress
Achille Mbembe
Advertising and consumerism
Advocacy networks
Affirmative action debates
Affirmative action policies
Affirmative action programs
Affordable Care Act
Affordable housing
African American Identity
African Slave Routes
Afro-Caribbean Culture
Afrocentricity
Afrofuturism
Alex Haley
Algorithmic bias
Amalia Mesa-Bains
American Indian Movement
Angela Davis
Angry black woman trope
Anti-bias education
Anti-globalization activism
Anti-racism
Anti-Racism Movements
Anti-racist activism
Anti-sweatshop movements
Anti-war activism
Aníbal Quijano
Arranged marriage
Artivism
Asian American Arts Movement
Asian American Political Alliance
Asian American Realism
Asian American Studies
Asian American theater
Asian Slave Routes
Asiatic Barred Zone
Asylum-seeking
Audience agency
Autoethnography
Aztlán

B

Bank of America v. City of Miami
Bar mitzvah
Bat mitzvah
Bicultural Identity
Bilingual poetry
Biracial Identity Development Model
Black Lives Matter Global Network
Bless Me, Ultima
Boat people
Border security
Borderlands/la frontera
Brain gain
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Bystander intervention

C

Cancer Alley
Carlos Muñoz Jr.
Carrie mae weems
Celia Cruz
Census categorization changes
Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers
Cherríe moraga
Chicano Studies
Child slavery
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Circular migration
Citizenship acquisition
Class conflict theory
Class consciousness