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Calendar

 

Lec # Topics Key dates
1 Introduction to The Study of Ethnic and National Identity: The Stakes, and Why the Stakes are So High
2 Ethnic Identity I
3 Ethnic Identity II
4 Ethnic Identity III: The Hui
5 Nation and Nationalism I Reader response due
6 Nation and Nationalism II
7 Ethnicity, State, Nation
8 State, Nation, Culture Reader response due
9 Culture: Definitions
10 Ethnic/State Conflict
11 Ethnic/State Conflict II First draft of first paper due
12 Race I Reader response due
13 Race II First paper returned, with comments
14 Ethnic Identity, Nationalism and Gender Rewrite of first paper due
15 Ethnic Identity, State, and Sexuality
16 Religion, Ethnicity, The Nation Reader response due
17 Language, Culture, Ethnicity
18 State, Culture, Nation Reader response due
19 Culture Recovery Optional first draft of second paper due
20 Culture: Appropriations, Heritage, "Selling Culture"

Optional first draft of third paper due

Second paper handed back, with comments (optional)

21 Human Rights, Collective Rights
22 New Social Movements: The Indigenous Movement

Final draft of second paper due

Optional first draft of third paper handed back with comments

23 Transnationalism, Globalization and Culture
24 Summing Up Final draft of third paper due
25 Student Reports Reader response due
26 Student Reports (cont.)