In November, Next Yale presented a list of demands to President Peter Salovey to address issues of racial inequality and marginalization on campus. The group asked for changes to many aspects of the university, from financial aid to cultural houses. A major point on their agenda was a new academic focus on ethnic studies. Last week, Yale announced the founding of the new Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration. But this new center was not created and will not exist in a vacuum. The new initiative comes from Yale’s fraught history with ethnic studies and faculty diversity and will take its place among other related but separate research centers working to expand academic work on race and ethnicity.