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Ethnicity and Race in World Politics

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States17.523
Free, no sign-up neededFall 2005English
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Discerning the ethnic and racial dimensions of politics is considered by some indispensable to understanding contemporary world politics. This course seeks to answer fundamental questions about racial and ethnic politics. To begin, what are the bases of ethnic and racial identities? What accounts for political mobilization based upon such identities? What are the political claims and goals of such mobilization and is conflict between groups and/or with government forces inevitable?

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