Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism Political Science / International Studies / Africana Studies

MW / 1:30-2:45 / RH-301 Spring 2012

Zachariah Mampilly Email: zamampilly@vassar.edu Office Hours: Wednesday 3:00 to 5:00 or by appt. (Rockefeller 408) Conflicts over racial, ethnic and / or national identity continue to dominate headlines in diverse corners of the world. Whether referring to ethnic violence in Bosnia or Sri Lanka, racialized political tensions in Sudan and Fiji, the treatment of Roma (Gypsies) and Muslims in Europe, or the charged debates about immigration policy in the United States, identity remains at the center of politics globally. The study of “Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism” encompasses a wide variety of social and political phenomena including language, violence, religion, class, gender and colonialism. Drawing upon multiple theoretical and disciplinary approaches, this course explores the related concepts of race, ethnicity and nationalism from a comparative perspective using case studies drawn from around the world and across different time periods. By design, close readings of the course material will be central to doing well in the class as will active participation in the classroom discussion. The course will be graded on a 20-20-20-20 basis, with three reading responses worth 20% each and a mid-term worth 20%. The remaining 20% will be based on your on-time attendance and participation in the course. Required Texts (available in the book store):

1. Sven Lindqvist. 2007. “Exterminate All the Brutes”: One Man’s Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide.

2. James Scott. 2009. The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia.

3. John and Jean Comaroff. 2009. Ethnicity, Inc. Other sources: We will be reading many articles or book chapters that I have not asked you to buy. For these, I will scan a copy of the article and make it available to you as a PDF on Moodle listed by the Author’s first and last name. In addition, I occasionally will send out articles and links via the Moodle email system. Be sure that your Moodle email address is accurate. Wednesday, January 18: Course Introduction Monday, January 23:

Sven Lindqvist. Selection from Exterminate All the Brutes. Wednesday, January 25: Sven Lindqvist. Selection from Exterminate All the Brutes. Monday, January 30: NO CLASS PAPER 1 DUE IN MAILBOX Wednesday, February 1: Thomas Eriksen. “Ethnicity, Race, and Nation.” pp. 46-53. Max Weber. “What is an Ethnic Group?” pp. 17-23. Rogers Brubaker. “Ethnicity without Groups.” pp. 33-45. Monday, February 6: Jennifer Hochschild. 2006. “When Do People Not Protest Unfairness? The Case of Skin Color Discrimination.” pp. 473-498. Michael Omi and Howard Winant. 1994. “Racial Formations.” pp. 3-13. Richard Nisbett. 2007. “All Brains are the Same Color.” Wednesday, February 8: Benedict Anderson. 1995. Selection from Imagined Communities. pp. 56-63. Partha Chatterjee. 1993. “Whose Imagined Community?” and “The Colonial State.” The Nation and Its Fragments. pp. 3-34. Monday, February 13: Talal Asad. 1999. “Religion, Nation-state, Secularism.” Nation and Religion: Perspectives on Europe and Asia. pp. 178-196. Anthony Marx. 1996. “Race-Making and the Nation-State.” pp. 180-208. Wednesday, February 15: Heather Sharkey. 2008. “Arab identity and ideology in Sudan: the politics of language, ethnicity, and race.” pp. 21-43.

Arjun Guneratne. “What’s in a name? Aryans and Dravidians in the making of Sri Lankan identities.” pp. 20-40. T.K. Oomen. “Race and Caste: Anthropological and Sociological Perspectives.” Caste, Race and Discrimination: Discourses in International Context. pp. 97-109. Robert F. Worth. “Yemen’s Marginalized Class.” Norimitsu Onitshi. 2009. “Japan’s Outcasts Still Wait for Acceptance.” Monday, February 20: Kimberle Crenshaw. “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color.” pp. 1241-1299. Mala Htun. 2004 “Is Gender like Ethnicity? The Political Representation of Identity Groups.” pp. 439-458. Wednesday, February 22: Anne McClintock. 1993. “No Longer in a Future Heaven’: Gender, Race and Nation.” pp. 104-123. Alexandra Halkias. 2003. “Money, God and Race: The Politics of Reproduction and the Nation in Modern Greece.” pp. 211-232. Monday, February 27: Sujatha Fernandes. 2011. “Made in Havana City: Rap Music, Space, and Racial Politics.” pp. 173-186. Tianna Paschel and Mark Sawyer. 2008. “Contesting Politics as Usual: Black Social Movements, Globalization, and Race Policy in Latin America.” pp. 197-214. Wednesday, February 29: MIDTERM Saturday, March 3 to Sunday March 18: SPRING BREAK Monday, March 19: James Scott. 2009. Selection from The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia. Wednesday, March 21: PAPER 2 DUE IN CLASS James Scott. 2009. Selection from The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia.

Monday, March 26: Gary P. Freeman. 1995. “Modes of Immigration Politics in Liberal Democratic States.” International Migration Review 29 (4): 881-902. Daniel Sabbagh. 2011. “Affirmative Action: The U.S. Experience in Comparative Perspective.” pp. 109-120. Michael Luo. 2009. “In Job Hunt, College Degree Can’t Close Racial Gap.” Wednesday, March 28: Kanchan Chandra. 2005. “Ethnic Parties and Democratic Stability.” pp. 235-252. Lahra Smith. 2007. “Voting for an Ethnic Identity: Procedural and Institutional Responses to Ethnic Conflict in Ethiopia.” pp. 565-594. Monday, April 2: Rogers Brubaker and David Laitin. 1998. “Ethnic and Nationalist Violence.” pp. 423–52. James Fearon and David Laitin. 2000. “Violence and the Social Construction of Ethnic Identity.” International Organization 54 (4): 845–877. Andreas Wimmer, Lars-Erik Cederman and Brian Min. “From Empire to Nation-State: Explaining War in the Modern World, 1816–2001.” pp. 316-339. Wednesday, April 4: NO CLASS Monday, April 9: Mahmood Mamdani. 2001. Selection from When Victims Become Killers. Wednesday, April 11: Mahmood Mamdani. 2001. Selection from When Victims Become Killers. Monday, April 16: Valeriano Esteban Ana María López Sala. 2007. “Breaking down the Far Southern Border of Europe: Immigration and Politics in the Canary Islands.” pp. 87-110. Will Kymlicka and Keith Banting. 2006. “Immigration, Multiculturalism, and the Welfare State.” pp. 281-304. Wednesday, April 18:

Stuart Hall. “The Local and the Global: Globalization and Ethnicity.” Bhikhu Parekh. “What is Multiculturalism?” pp. 238-243. Rainer Spencer. 2009. “Mixed-Race Chic.” Monday, April 23: Uma Kothari. 2006. “An Agenda for Thinking About ‘Race’ in Development.” pp. 9-23. Ramon Grosfoguel. 2004. “Race and ethnicity or racialized ethnicities? Identities within global coloniality.” pp. 315-336. Wednesday, April 25: John and Jean Comaroff. 2009. Selection from Ethnicity, Inc. Monday, April 30: Final Class—PAPER 3 DUE IN CLASS John and Jean Comaroff. 2009. Selection from Ethnicity, Inc.