4. theories of ethnicity and race, March 15

-          introduction into race and ethnicity studies

-          identity and self-identification

-          belonging and group-making

readings:

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

·         Berghe, van den, P.: Race and Ethnicity: A Socio-Biological Perspective. In: Ethnic and
Racial Studies, 1/ 4 (1978), pp. 402-409.

·         Geertz, C. Primordial and Civic Ties. In: Smith, A.D., Hutchinson, J. 1994. Nationalism.
pp. 29-34.

·         Barth, F. 1969. “Introduction”. Ethnic Groups and Boundaries. Boston: Little, Brown and
comp.

·         R. Brubaker . 2004. Ethnicity without Groups: Introduction, + Ch. no. 1 and 5.