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Week 1

• Anderson (2006), Imagined Communities, Chapter 4

• Brubaker (2002), "Ethnicity without Groups," 167-171

• Cornell (2000), "That’s the Story of Our Life."

• Fabe (2014), Glossary.

Week 2

• Sidanius and Pratto (1999), Social Dominance, Chapters 1 and 2

• Darden and Grzymala-Busse (2006), “The Great Divide”

Week 3

• King and Smith (2005), “Racial Orders”

• Young and Meiser (2007), “Race and the dual state...”

• Worgs (2006), “Beware of the Frustrated...”

• Smooha (1997), Introduction, pages 198–201, "Ethnic Democracy"

Week 4

• Haidt (2012), Righteous Mind, Chapter 9

• Xygalatas et al (2013), "Extreme Rituals Promote Prosociality"

Week 5

• Beltrán (2010), Introduction, Chapters 1 and 2, The Trouble with Unity: Latino Politics and the Creation Of Identity

Week 6

• Benn, Miguel, and Posner (2010), “Political Competition and Ethnic Identification in Africa”

• Mares and Young (2016), Pages 267–273, “Buying, Expropriating, and Stealing Votes.

Week 7

• Tilly (1985), “War making and state making as organized crime”

• Blattman, Lessing, Tobon, and Duncan (2022), “Gang rule...”

Week 8

• Harff and Gurr (1988), “Toward Empirical Theory of Genocides and Politicides”

• Duane (2019), “The Long, Strange Tale of California’s Surf Nazis”

• Bass, Gary (2006), “What really causes civil war?”

Week 9

• Whitman (2017), Introduction, ``Hitler’s American model``

• Adida and Robinson (2023), “Why (Some) Immigrants Resist Assimilation”

• Roth (2016), “The multiple dimensions of race”

Week 10

• Belew (2018), Chapters 1-2 and 7, Bring the War Home

Week 11

• Grinde (2004), “Taking the Indian out of the Indian”

• TBD

Week 12

• Gamson and Gadi Wolfsfeld (1993), “Movements and Media as Interacting Systems.”

• Broockman and Kalla (2016), “Durably reducing transphobia"

Week 13

• Stoddard (1997), “Bleeding heart”

Week 14

• Kim (1999), “The Racial Triangulation of Asian Americans”

• TBD