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SES # 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 Video: The Master Race
6 Nation and nationalism II  
7 Ethnicity, state, nation  
8 State, nation, culture  
9 Culture: definitions First draft of first paper due
10 Ethnic conflict I Video: Gacaca
11 Ethnic conflict II First paper returned, with comments
12 Race I  
13 Race II Rewrite of first paper due
14 Race III Video: Stolen Generations: Genocide and the Aborigines
15 Ethnic identity, nationalism, and gender First draft of second paper due
16 Ethnic identity, state, and sexuality  
17 Religion, ethnicity, the nation Second paper handed back, with comments
18 Language and culture, ethnicity, race  
19 Culture recovery Final draft of second paper due
20 Culture: appropriations, heritage, "selling culture"

Optional first draft of third paper due

Video: White Shamans and Plastic Medicine Men
21 Human rights, collective rights  
22 New social movements Optional first draft of third paper handed back with comments
23 Transnationalism, globalization and culture  
24 The state: hegemony and push-back

Final draft of third paper due

Video: "Civilization," part of "Savagery and the American Indian" series
25 Summing up: review of theory  
26 Student reports Video: Without Due Process: Japanese Americans and World War II