This first issue of DES: A Scholarly Journal of Ethnic Studies, is a collection of papers, some previously published, by the faculty of the Department of Ethnic Studies in The University of Colorado at Boulder. Its purpose is to more widely disseminate the kinds of work in which we are engaged, hence its appearance on the World Wide Web.
Ethnic Studies is staffed by persons in African American, American Indian, Asian American, Chicano/a, and Comparative studies representing the areas of instruction and research that make up the principal foci of our department.
Currently, those personnel are: Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Chairwoman and professor of history; William M King, Jualynne E Dodson, Joy J James, and David N Pellow in African American Studies; Ward Churchill and Deward E. Walker in American Indian Studies; Lane Hirabayashi, Hu-DeHart and Lisa S H Park in Asian American Studies; and, Elisa Facio in Chicano/a Studies.
This journal is also an experiment whose intent is to familiarize those who visit this site with those persons and their ideas. It is our hope and desire to publish additional issues of the journal in the days ahead. Accordingly, we invite and welcome your comments on what you find here. Please address your remarks to the editor, William M King, at kingwm@spot.colorado.edu .