Related Resources

Supplemental readings on various topics are listed on this page.

Tibet

French, Howard W. "Shangri-La No More: The Dragons Have Settled In. New York Times, December 8, 2004.

Eckholm, Eric. "From a Chinese Cell, A Lama's Influence Remains Undimmed." New York Times, February 23, 2003.

China

Smith, Craig S. "Risking Limbs for Height, and Success, in China." New York Times, May 5, 2002.

Yardley, Jim. "China Frees Muslim Woman Days Ahead of Rice's Visit." New York Times, March 18, 2005.

Japan

Onishi, Norimitsu. "Born to Be a Foreigner in Her Motherland." New York Times, April 2, 2005.

Mexico

Thompson, Ginger. "Uneasily, a Latin Land Looks at its Own Complexion." New York Times, May 19, 2005.

Québec Separatism

Krauss, Clifford. "Quebec Seeking to End its Old Cultural Divide." New York Times, April 13, 2003.

Israel

Levy, Gideon. "Wombs in Service of the State." Ha'aretz, September 9, 2002.

Kurds

Zoepf, Katherine. "After Decades as Nonpersons, Syrian Kurds May Soon Be Recognized." New York Times, April 28, 2005.

Gypsies

Spritzer, Dinah A. "Often Shunted into Special Schools, Gypsies Fight Back." New York Times, April 27, 2005.

Wood, Nicholas. "Germany Sending Gypsy Refugees Back to Kosovo." New York Times, May 19, 2005.

Native Americans

Klinkenborg, Verlyn. "The (Old) Buffalo Nickel." New York Times, March 6, 2005.

"For This Coin, it's Three Heads and One Tail." Letters to the Editor, New York Times, March 9, 2005.

Gender/Ethno-Racial Identity and Nationalism

Nelson, Diane. "Perpetual Creation and Decomposition: Bodies, Gender, and Desire in the Assumptions of a Guatemalan Discourse of mestizaje." Journal of Latin American Anthropology 4 (1998): 74-111.

de la Cadena, Marisol. "Ambiguity and Contradiction in the Analysis of Race and the State." Journal of Latin American Anthropology 6 (2001): 252-266.

Biological Race

Leroi, Armand Marie. "A Family Tree in Every Gene." New York Times, March 14, 2005.

Daly, Emma. "DNA Tells Students They Aren't Who They Thought." New York Times, April 13, 2005.

Ethno-Racial Profiling

Murphy, Dean E. "Case Stirs Fight on Jews, Juries, and Execution." New York Times, March 16, 2005.

U.S. White Supremacy Groups

Johnson, Kirk. "New Tactics, Tools, and Goals are Emerging for White Power Organizations." New York Times, April 6, 2005.

Ethnic Conflict and Violence

Eakin, Emily. "On the Dark Side of Democracy." New York Times, January 31, 2004.

Cultural Recovery Movements

Merry, Sally. "Law, Culture, and Cultural Appropriation." Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities 10 (1998): 575-603.

Ethnic Tourism

Bruner, Edward. "The Maasai and the Lion King: Authenticity, Nationalism, and Globalization in African Tourism." American Ethnologist 28 (November 2001): 881-908.

Neoliberalism

Krugman, Paul. "The Ugly American Bank." New York Times, March 18, 2005.