CONTENTS



1. Introduction

·        Wolf, E.R.: 1982, 1997, Europe and the People without History


2. Nationalism and nations

·        Anderson, Benedikt: Imagined Communities: Introduction

·        Smith, A. D.: “National and Other Identities”

·        Smith, A. D.: “Nationalism and Cultural Identity”


3. Who are the Czechs? (De)Construction of the national spirit

·        Holý, L.:1996. The Little Czech and The Great Czech Nation



4. Theories of ethnicity and race

·        Weber, M. What is an ethnic group? In: Montserrat Guibernau – John Rex (ed). The Ethnicity
Reader. Cambridge, Polity Press, 1997. pp. 15–26.


5. Ethnicity and modern citizenship in the Czech Republic

·         Alexander J. C., 1980, Core solidarity, ethnic out-group and social differentiation: a
multidimensional model of inclusion in modern societies, in J. Dofny e A. Akiwowo (eds.), National
and ethnic movements, Sage, London, 1980, pp.5-28.


7. Emigration and immigration in the Czech Republic

·        Eriksen, Thomas Hyllan: “Multiculturalism, Individualism and Human Rights: Romanticism,
the Enlightenment and Lessons from Mauritius”


8. Vietnamese immigrants in the Czech Republic


9. Ukrainian immigrants in the Czech Republic


10. Specificity of the Roma national minority in the Czech Republic I

·        Horváthová, J. 2000. Life in Black and White. Praha: Gallery. Pp. 48-64.

·        Okely, J. After Writing Culture: Some Political consequences of Theories of the Gypsy
Ethnicity.

·        Petrova, D., ¨The Roma: Between the Myth and the Future´, In. Social Research Magazine,
special issue Pariah Minorities, vol. 72, no. 1, Spring 2003, pp. 111-161

11. Specificity of the Roma national minority in the Czech Republic II.

12. Specificity of the Roma national minority in the Czech Republic II.: continuation of the topic

·        Rebecca Jean Emigh – Eva Fodor – Iván Szelényi: The Racialization and Feminization of
Poverty? In: Rebecca Jean Emigh – Iván Szelényi: Poverty, Ethnicity, and Gender in Eastern Europe
During the Market Transition. Praeger, Westport 2001. pp. 1-32.

·        Vašečka, M. - Radičová, I., 2001: Social Exclusion and Double Marginalization of the Roma
in the Slovak Republic after 1989. In: Labor, Employment, and Social Policies in the EU Enlargement
Process (eds.) Funck, B. - Pizzati, L., The World Bank, Washington, DC.

13 Minorities in the Media – situation after 1989

·        Jirák, J. “The Media, Stereotypes, Minorities, Foreigners and the Rest of Us”

·        Moore-Mezlíková, M. “Constructing the Image of Asian Immigrants in the Czech Media”

·        Klvačová, P., Bitrich, T. “How Foreigners Are (Not) Written about”