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| Johns Hopkins University
Proposal | Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) | Critical Diaspora Studies | | 6/20/2024 | | |
| Critical Diaspora Studies Program Description |
| The Johns Hopkins University is delighted to call for the creation of a new undergraduate major, a Bachelor of Arts in Critical Diaspora Studies (CDS) to satisfy the urgent need for a comparative, synthetic, and applied academic program that moves beyond identarian modes of knowledge production, particularly in the wake of immense social and racial tensions. The CDS major will enable students to study the connections, <br>solidarities, and dissonances between geographical and cultural areas of study—such as Asian-American, African diaspora, Indigenous, and Latinx studies—that are too often considered separately from one another but are in fact connected through entangled histories of migration, colonialism, and social movements. The CDS major will provide unique, interdisciplinary opportunities for students to explore topics related to <br>indigenous and diasporic communities and their migration by prioritizing comparative, synthetic, structural, global, and activist modes of analysis. |
