Ethnic Studies is a type of academic program that includes a multiplicity of cultural disciplines (education, ethnology, history, literature, philosophy, political science, psychology, sociology, etc.). The history of the integrationist (or assimilationist) and the pluralist (or multi-cultural) conceptions of race and ethnic relations chiefly in the United States is examined first and then the attempt is made to show how research within and philosophical reflection upon this multi-discipline can be phenomenological.