Syllabus (Draft): here
Read the Preface, and as much as you can from Part One of Memmi’s book, The Colonizer and the Colonized
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The Neoliberal Arts. (article)
How to live wisely (article)
University of Chicago Strikes Back Against Campus Political Correctness (article)
The White Flight of Derek Black. (article)
White Supremacists by Default (article)
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Renan, Ernest (1882). What is a nation?
Arendt, Hannah. Chapter 5. The Political Emancipation of the Bourgeoisie. In The Origins of Totalitarianism (123-157). (PDF)
Azibadeh, Arash. Ethnicity, Race and a possible humanity.
Arendt, Hannah. Chapter 9. The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of the Rights of Man. In The Origins of Totalitarianism. (267-304). (PDF)
Seeing like a State (Chptrs Intro, 1 and 2). James C. Scott.
Anderson, Benedict (1991) Chap. 3: The Origins of National Consciousness. In Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London; New York: Verso. Pp. 37-47. (PDF)
Anderson, Benedict (1991) Chap.5: Old Languages, New Models. In Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London; New York: Verso. Pp. 67-83. (PDF)
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Bonus work: (for 5 points max): write a 2 page reflection on the commonalities and differences you see between the conflicts in Rwanda and Yugoslavia according to the documentaries The Weight of Chains and the BBC documentary on the Rwandan Genocide.
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Syllabus (Draft): here