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Week 5 – Ethnicity Experiences. Power, Politics, and Identities. RE-Schedule of classes. Feb 6 – Ethnicity ( ch 4) Feb 13 – Quebec: Nationalism and Ethnicity ( ch 8) Feb 20 - reading week Feb 27 - Racialized Inequality ( ch 5) Mar 6 - NO CLASS
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Week 5 – Ethnicity Experiences Power, Politics, and Identities
RE-Schedule of classes • Feb 6 – Ethnicity (ch 4) • Feb 13 – Quebec: Nationalism and Ethnicity (ch 8) • Feb 20 - reading week • Feb 27 - Racialized Inequality (ch 5) • Mar 6 - NO CLASS • March 13 – Gendered Inequality (ch 6) • etc
Paradoxes of Ethnicity • Globalization + Ethnicity • It matters/ explanatory framework • It can matter too much (ethnic conflict or conflicts that are ethnicized) • Challenge of ethnicity = making Canada safe for, safe from, ethnicity
Conceptualizing ethnicity • Definition • Characteristics - race vs ethnicity - objective + subjective dimensions
Theories of Ethnicityor why ethnicity is so persistent/powerful
Identities / ethnic identity • Who am I ethnically speaking/who are we? - constructed - contested - continuum - conditional • Intergenerational Conflicts
Nations and Nationalism{nationalism as political expression of nations}
Managing Ethnicity in Canada • The challenge - depoliticize ethnicity • Why? - to make Canada safe for, safe from, ethnicity • How? - MC