CSER | Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race

CSER SAB x Roots Coffee House

Join the CSER Student Advisory Board and ethnic studies journal Roots for an evening showcasing student performances and art! Visit Instagram (@csersabcolmbia and @cseroots) for more information.

CSER Holiday Party

Join the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race for our end-of-semester holiday party! Dinner will be catered from Massawa. We encourage CSER students and faculty especially to attend for an evening of community and celebration.

Roots Journal, CSER's Student Publication

Check out the latest edition of CSER’s student journal, Roots! Established within The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race in 2023-2024, Roots is a unique space for academic and creative work directly related to the intersection of several axes of identity—namely race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, class, and ability.

Want to get involved? Email cserjournal@gmail.com to inquire about submission guidelines, timelines, and available staff positions.

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Statement from CSER's Faculty

April 25, 2024

The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CSER) faculty fully supports Columbia and Barnard students’ rights to free speech and assembly. We unequivocally and unanimously condemn the decision to bring armed riot police onto campus and to impose mass suspensions in response to peaceful student protests.

We urgently advocate for the immediate reinstatement of the Columbia and Barnard students, including restoring their access to academic and extracurricular activities, dining halls, and residences. The university leadership must also swiftly revoke the suspensions and expunge disciplinary sanctions from student records. Additionally, for the safety of everyone on campus, the administration must cease its collaboration with the FBI and the NYPD, end its deployment of private security firms to surveil students and faculty, and begin a dialogue taking students’ demands seriously.

The Center is the only academic unit at Columbia formed in response to student inquiry and activism. The students currently calling for a ceasefire and university divestment carry on that legacy. We demand a university that can sustain real dialogue, without policing, on state violence towards Palestine. The University should be able to engage peacefully with peaceful student protest.

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The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CSER) is Columbia’s main interdisciplinary space for the study of ethnicity, race and indigeneity and their implications for thinking about culture, power, hierarchy, social identities, and political communities, in the U.S. and around the world.

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