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Ethnic Politics I

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States17.504
Free, no sign-up neededFall 2003English
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This course is designed to provide students with a broad overview of the major theories on the relationship between ethnicity and politics. The course is divided into three sections. The first covers general theory and discusses the social construction of ethnicity as well as the limits of construction. The second section discusses ethnicity as a dependent variable. This section studies the forces that shape the development of ethnic identities and their motivating power.

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