Michael Rossi
Department of Political Science
Program in International Relations
Long Island University Brooklyn
Our first major discussion of ethnic politics examines how culture and ethnic identity are conceptualized in the social sciences.
Covered readings include:
West, Cornel: 1993. Race Matters. Boston: Beacon Press
“Race Matters in Twenty-First Century America”, pp. xv – xxv
“Introduction: Race Matters”, pp. 1 – 8
Ross, Marc Howard: 2007. Cultural Contestation in Ethnic Conflict. Cambridge University Press
“Introduction: Easy Questions and Hard Answers. What Are They Fighting
About?” pp. 1 – 29
David Laitin, Hegemony and Culture: Politics and Religious Change among the Yoruba (University of Chicago Press, 1986)
“The Two Faces of Culture”, 1 – 20 (especially pp. 11 – 20)
Chapter Markers:
00:00:00 - 00:11:29 - The Current State of Affairs in the US: February 2021
00:11:29 - 00:19:10 -A Pervasive Culture of Disappoint and Apathy
00:19:10 - 00:24:32 - That Has Existed Long Before Donald Trump
00:24:32 - 00:35:44 - The 1992 Los Angeles Riots in Collective Memory
00:35:44 - 00:39:01 - Thus...
00:39:01 - 00:47:53 - The "Two Faces of Culture"
00:47:53 - 00:54:57 - The Weaknesses of Each Face
00:54:57 - 00:59:52 - The Need for Both "Faces"
00:59:52 - 01:07:00 - What This All Means
