21A.102
Ethnic and National Identity
Fall 2011
An introduction to the cross-cultural study of ethnic and national identity. We examine the concept of social identity, and consider the ways in which gendered, linguistic, religious, and ethno-racial identity components interact. We explore the history of nationalism, including the emergence of the idea of the nation-state, as well as ethnic conflict, globalization, identity politics, and human rights.
Readings
- [Gladney] = Gladney, DruC. Ethnic Identity in China: The Making of a Muslim Minority Nationality . 2nd ed. Harcourt Brace, 2003. ISBN: 9780534066987.
- [Wade] = Wade, Peter. Race, Nature, and Culture . Pluto Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780745314594.
- SES #: 4 · TOPICS: Ethnic Identity III: The Hui · READINGS: [Gladney], pp. 57–132.
- SES #: 5 · TOPICS: Nation and Nationalism I · READINGS: [Gladney], pp. 135–76.
- Harrison, Simon. “Identity as a Scarce Resource.” Social Anthropology 7, no. 3 (1999): 239–51.
- Maybury–Lewis, David. “Ethnic Groups.” In Indigenous Peoples, Ethnic Groups, and the State. Allyn and Bacon, 2001, pp. 47–79. ISBN: 9780205337460.
- Maybury–Lewis, David. “The State.” In Indigenous Peoples, Ethnic Groups, and the State. Allyn and Bacon, 2001, pp. 105–30. ISBN: 9780205337460.
- Schein, Louisa. “The Consumption of Color and the Politics of White Skin in Post–Mao China.” In The Gender Sexuality Reader . Edited by Roger Lancaster and Micaela Di Leonardo. Routledge, 1997, pp. 473–86. ISBN: 9780415910057.
- Wilson, Ara. “American Catalogues of Asian Brides.” In Anthropology for the Nineties, Introductory Readings . Edited by Johnetta B. Cole. Free Press, 1988, pp. 114-24. ISB: 9780029064412.
- Maybury-Lewis, David. “Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing.” In Indigenous Peoples, Ethnic Groups, and the State . Allyn and Bacon, 2001, pp. 81–103. ISBN: 9780205337460.
- Omi, Michael, and Howard Winant. “Racial Formation.” In Oppression, Privilege, and Resistance: Theoretical Perspectives on Racism, Sexism, and Heterosexism . Edited by Lisa Heldke and Peg O’Connor. McGraw–Hill, 2003, pp. 115–42. ISBN: 9780072882438.
- Smith, Carol. “Race, Class, Gender Ideology in Guatemala: Modern and Anti–modern Forms.” In Women Out of Place: The Gender of Agency and the Race of Nationality . Edited by Brackette Williams. Routledge, 1996, pp. 50–78. ISBN: 9780415914970.
- Nagel, Joane. “Sex and Nationalism: Sexually Imagined Communities.” In Race, Ethnicity and Sexuality: Intimate Intersections, Forbidden Frontiers . Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 140–76. ISBN: 9780195127478.
- Stavenhagen, Rodolfo. “Language and Social Identity.” In Talking About People: Readings in Contemporary Cultural Anthropology . Edited by William A. Haviland and Robert J. Gordon. Mayfield Publication Corporation, 1993, pp. 41–3. ISBN: 9781559341417. Originally published in United Nations Work in Progress 13, no. 2 (December).
- Schirmer, Jennifer. “The Looting of Democratic Discourse by the Guatemalan Military: Implications for Human Rights.” In Constructing Democracy: Human Rights, Citizenship, and Society in Latin America . Edited by Elizabeth Jelin and Eric Hershberg. Westview Press, 1996, pp. 85–97. ISBN: 9780813324388.
- Trouillot, Michel–Rolph. “Anthropology and the Savage Slot.” In Recapturing Anthropology: Working in the Present (Advanced Seminar Series) . Edited by Richard Fox. School of American Research Press, 1991, pp. 17–44. ISBN: 9780933452770.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
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