Editing Brubaker 2002 (section)

==== Rethinking ethnicity ====
*We need to rethink what we mean by ethnicity itself 
**Not just agreeing on a definition, but critically examining how we conceptualize it
*Ethnicity, race, and nation should not be thought of as substantive, concrete things, but as relational and dynamic
**BruBaker argues that we should be not seeing the concept of ethnicity as something
rational, it does not come from preexisting or “established” groups but rather
from social interactions that can even keep redefining since there are no fixed
boundaries becuase we are constantly changing.
**We need to think of them in terms of their institutions, “cognitive schemas,” events, political projects, etc.–in other words, as processes
**Our basic analytical category is not the group but groupness