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ANTH 206 2016 Race & CTZNSHP Syllabus
ANTH 206 2016 Race & CTZNSHP Syllabus
Course Description:
Some of the questions that will guide us include: How are political
subjects produced? How do we understand the relationship between
citizenship as a practice of everyday life and citizenship as a legal
formation? How do we think of citizenship, as an ongoing political
process? How do contemporary forms of multicultural citizenship
address or leave unanswered the exclusions of liberalism? What does it
mean to think of citizenship, not as an identity, but as a discourse or
articulating principle through whichdifferentidentificationsandallegiancesare
madepossible?Isapoliticsofcitizenshipnecessarilyaddressedtothestate?
Course Requirements/ Responsibilities of Participants:
1. Reading: There will be quite a lot of reading in the course, so you must be ready to do
that reading and participate in the discussions. The texts will be found in pdfs form on
the course TED site.
2. Class presentations: For each class meeting, participants will make brief in-class
presentations and then facilitate the discussion. The idea is to have students engage
closely with one particular reading before the class discussion, and then to make use of
the discussion to deepen that understanding.
In our fields, we must be able to articulate ideas and to have analytical debates with
colleagues. There is no better place to develop these skills than in a class of mutually
supportive peers. This requires two things: that you be brave and try out your ideas in
public, and that you be kind and cooperative with your fellows. Remember that your
colleagues are the biggest asset you have.
3. Term Paper: You must write one 20-page term paper, due the Monday of exam week.
The topic is up to you, but must be approved by the professor. The goal is to use this
writing project to connect the readings and discussions in class to a research project on
which you are working (or plan to work).
Readings:
Recommended Reading:
Young, Iris Marion, 1995. Polity and Group Difference: A Critique of the
Ideal of Universal Citizenship, in Theorizing Citizenship, Ronald Beiner,
ed. Albany: State University of New York Press. (pp. 175-207)
Recommended Reading:
Patterson, Orlando 1982. Slavery and Social Death, A Comparative
Study. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (pp. 1-76)
Recommended Reading:
Lipsitz, George 1998. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness, in The
Possessive Investment in Whiteness, How White People Profit from
Identity Politics. Philadelphia: Temple University Press (pp1-23).
Week 4. Substantive vs. Formal Citizenship
Holston, James, 2008. Insurgent Citizenship, Disjunctions of
Democracy and Modernity in Brazil. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
Press.
Recommended Reading:
Caldeira, Teresa 2000. City of Walls, Crime, Segregation, and
Citizenship in Sao Paolo. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Recommended Reading
Bennett, David and Homi Bhabha 1998. Liberalism and Minority
Culture, Reflections on Cultures in Between, in Multicultural States,
Rethinking Difference and Identity, David Bennett, ed. London:
Routledge.
Recommended Reading:
Hale, Charles R. 2006. Ms Que Un Indio: Racial Ambivalence and
Neoliberal Multiculturalism in Guatemala. Santa Fe: School of American
Research Resident Scholar Book.
Hall, Stuart and David Held, 1990. Citizens and Citizenship, in New
Times, The Changing Face of Politics in the 1990s. London: Verso.
Berlant, Lauren 1997. Introduction: The Intimate Public Sphere, and Ch.
6: The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Notes on Diva
Citizenship, in The Queen of America Goes to Washington City, Essays
on Sex and Citizenship. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. (pp. 1-24,
221-246)
Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2015. Between the World and Me, Speigel and Grau
Publishers.
Recommended Reading
Bock, Gisela and Susan James 1992. Introduction: Contextualizing
Equality and Difference, in Beyond Equality and Difference, Citizenship,
Feminist Politics, and Female Subjectivity. London: Routledge, p. 1-13.
Recommended Readings
Rose, Nikolas 1996. Governing Advanced Liberal Democracies, in
Foucault and Political Reason, Liberalism, neo-liberalism, and
Rationalities of Government, Barry, Andrew, Thomas Osborne, and
Nikolas Rose, eds, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (pp. 37-64)
Ticktin, Miriam 2006. Where Ethics and Politics Meet: The Violence of
Humanitarianism in France. American Ethnologist 33(1): 33-49.
Recommended Reading:
Chatterjee, Partha 2004
The Politics of the Governed, Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of
the World. Delhi: Permanent Black.