授業科目名 年度 学期 開講曜日・時限 学部・研究科 全担当教員 単位数
16671:IR18‐EE231 Race and Ethnicity in the Modern World(RA) § 16672:IR-ECS203 Race and Ethnicity in the Modern World(RA) § 16673:RUIR-2422 Race and Ethnicity in the Modern World(RA) 2024 春セメスター 金1 国際関係学部 辻本 登志子 2

キャンパス

衣笠

授業施設

明学館MG001号教室

授業で利用する言語

English

授業の概要と方法

This introductory course aims for students to understand how race and ethnicity -- the elusive markers classifying human beings into different social categories -- had contributed to shaping the historical ideologies and orders that distinguish human groups and individuals from “us” to “others.” The course comprises two-fold theoretical and empirical case studies to link theories with global concerns of race and ethnicity issues. It provides students with essential knowledge and debates on race and ethnicity studies to delve into various ongoing global phenomena and contentious issues of ethnic conflicts and territorial disputes. To bridge the Western-centred studies on race and ethnicity, I introduce specific case studies in Japan and other countries or regions to invigorate comparative views and expand the scope of analysis.

Specifically, the course will begin with the historical development of race and ethnicity and the intersections of two concepts based on different scholarly approaches and regional contexts. Second, we will examine how modern nation-building involves race and ethnicity by articulating the connections between modernization, nationalism, and ethnicity. We will also explore how contemporary nation-states address racially and ethnically heterogeneous populations under the government policies of multiculturalism. Lastly, we will focus on the bilateral effect of ethnicity, consolidating people under comradeship and shared identity. On the other hand, it generates conflicts between humans with different attributes and identities. We also address how ethnicity brings about divides and rivalry, illustrated by the separatist movements (secession), genocide, and ethnic cleansing in the final phase of the course.

Throughout the course, we explore how identities, mythologies, beliefs, and collective memories or traumas permeating race and ethnicity can impact real international politics and disputes in conjunction with ethnonational symbolism.

This course adopts a "students-centred learning" principle, combining a series of lectures and students' group discussions. I evaluate students' performance based on case study reports on race and ethnicity, class group discussions, reflection on lectures, and final research papers. Considering the expected class size, I cannot return feedback individually. Instead, I will provide feedback to the whole class every week by synthesizing the submitted reflections and discussions.

受講生の到達目標

Students will be able to:
1) understand and explain race and ethnicity concepts and their controversy within the historical development of human race ideologies in the West and its influence on other world regions in their respective contexts;
2) read and understand scholarly materials to summarize the contents in their words and express their views orally and in a written form while identifying meaningful questions for discussions;
3) develop a critical lens to explain the cause of a specific international incident, such as territorial disputes and ethnic conflicts, by adequately engaging with scholarly discussions of race and ethnicity studies;
4) explain the contact points of ethnicity and international relations by using scholarly concepts and frameworks;
5) complete a research paper at the end of the semester, which includes a coherent flow of problem setting and unravelling the complex racial and ethnic issues in a particular region or country supported by sufficient academic references.

事前に履修しておくことが望まれる科目

授業スケジュール

授業回数/
担当教員（複数担当の場合） 		テーマ
キーワード・文献・補足事項等
1

Course Introduction

‧ Explaining the course overview and goals

2

The Historical Development of “Race Thinking”

‧ Colonialism and slavery, Monogenism and polygenism, sciences and the invention of “races”

Spencer, Stephen (2014) “Chap. 2 The Politics of Naming” in Race and Ethnicity: Culture, Identity and representation (Second Edition), Routledge, 40-66

3

Race in the "Post-Racial" World--Students' Group Discussion ①

‧ Globalization and human mobility, racialization in sport, us vs. others,

Agergaard, Sine, and Engh, Mari Haugaa (2017) "Chap. 8 Globalization, Migration and Racialization in Sport," in John Nauright and David K. Wiggins (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Sport, Race, and Ethnicity, Routledge, 107-120.

4

Rethinking “Mixed Race” and “Pure Race” Ideology in the Global Contexts

‧ Genetics and race, miscegenation and anti-miscegenation, “mixed-blood” or "mixed-raceness" as a historically constructed ideology, ethnicity and nationality as the elements of mixedness

Ifekwunigwe, J.O. (2004) "Introduction: Rethinking 'Mixed Race" Studies, in J. O. Ifekwunigwe (ed.) "Mixed Race" Studies: A Reader, Routledge, 1-29.


Törngren, Sayaka Osanami, Irastorza, Nahikari, and Rodriguez-Garcia, Dan (2021) “Understanding Multiethnic and Multiracial Experiences Globally: Towards a Conceptual Framework of Mixedness,” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 47(4): 763-781.

5

“Mixed Race” People in Asia and Beyond

‧ The contexts of "mixedness" in Asia or non-Atlantic model, The foreign military occupation as the consequence of "mixedness", marriage migration and the creation of "mixedness"

Takezawa, Y., and Small, S. (2022) "Theorizing People of Mixed Race in the Pacific and the Atlantic," Social Sciences 11(124): 1-14. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11030124

6

Race and Ethnicity

‧ Primordial, instrumental, and circumstantial accounts of ethnicity, race and ethnicity as the interchangeable variables?

Cornell, Stephen, and Hartmann, Douglas (2007) “Chap. 3 Fixed or Fluid?” in Ethnicity and Race: Making Identities in a Changing World, Pine Forge Press (Second Edition), 41-74.

7

Ethnicity and Identities--Students' Group Discussion ②

‧ Assimilation, acculturation, ethnic boundary, stereotyping

Cornell, Stephen, and Hartmann, Douglas (2007) “Chap. 4 A Constructionist Approach,” in Stephen Cornell and Douglas Hartmann (eds.) Ethnicity and Race: Making Identities in a Changing World (Second Edition), Pine Forge Press, 75-106.

8

Ethnicity and Nationalism

‧ Modernism and primordialism approaches to a nation and nationalism, nationalism as political (civic) or ethnic consciousness and movement?

Eriksen, Thomas Hylland (2010) “Chap. 6 Nationalism,” in Thomas Hylland Eriksen (ed.) Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives, Pluto Press, 117-146.

9

Ethnonationalism, Immigration, and Xenophobia

‧ Ethnic nationalism, the rise of far-right wing parties, anti-immigration, chauvinism

Kaufmann, Eric. (2019) “Ethno-traditional Nationalism and the Challenge of Immigration,” Nations and Nationalism 25(2): 435-448.

10

Ethnicity and Race in Multicultural Societies

‧ The myth of a homogenous nation-state, multiculturalism, liberalism, communitarianism, developmental model

Eriksen, Thomas H. (2010) “Chap. 8 Identity Politics, Culture and Rights,” in Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives, Pluto Press, 174-197.

11

Challenges of Multicultural Societies in Asia and Beyond--Students' Group Discussion ③

‧ The rise of international labour migration and mixed marriage in East Asia, new formation of the hierarchies in nationhood and ethnicity

Nagy, Stephen Robert. (2014) “Politics of Multiculturalism in East Asia: Reinterpreting Multiculturalism,” Ethnicities, 14(1): 160-176.

12

Self-Determination as Collective Rights

‧ Collective rights vs. individual rights, internal and external elements of self-determination, self-determination of indigenous people and immigrants

Trifunovska, Snežana (1997) “On Theme in Two Variations: Self-Determination for Minorities and Indigenous Peoples,” International Journal on Minority and Group Rights 5: 175-197.

13

Ethnic Consolidation and Conflicts

‧ Ethnicity as the cause of conflicts? instrumental and “the myth-symbol complex”

Kaufman, Stuart J. (2010) “Chapter 8. Ethnicity as a Generator of Conflict,” in Karl Cordell and Stefan Wolff, Routledge Handbook of Ethnic Conflict, Routledge, 91-102.

14

Ethnic Cleansing and Ethnonational Symbolism--Students' Group Discussion ④

‧ The creation and dissolution of the former federation of Yugoslavia, Ethno-symbolic and instrumental reasons for ethnic cleansing

Jenne, E. K. (2010) “The Causes and Consequences of Ethnic Cleansing,” in K. Cordell and S. Wolff (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Ethnic Conflict, Routledge, 112-121.

15

Peer-Review on the Final Research Paper--Students' Group Discussion ⑤

‧ Students will submit the memo of the Final Research Paper on Manaba before the class.

授業実施形態

No online classes will be provided without any special reasons. However, the first class may take an on-demand video format. I will announce via Manaba course news which format (in person in the classroom or on-demand video format) I will take for the first class before the start of Spring 2024.

授業外学習の指示

Students must complete all readings assigned to every class. Besides, please refer to additional readings introduced by the instructor in class.

成績評価方法

種別 割合(%) 評価基準等
定期試験（筆記） 0

レポート試験
（統一締切日を締切とするレポート）		 0

上記以外の試験・レポート、平常点評価
（日常的な授業における取組状況の評価）		 100

‧ Reflection comments (15%; approximately 200-300 words per posting)
‧ Regional & Country Case Report (10%; approximately 700-800 words in length)
‧ The participation and contribution to the group discussions & after-discussion comments (25%; approximately 200-300 words per posting)
‧ Final research paper (50%; approximately 2000-2300 words excluding a reference list)

成績評価方法(備考)

*Students who attended class and group discussions can post their reflections and after-discussion comments.

* Students absent from two-thirds of the group discussion classes will automatically fail the course.

* Students' Final Research Papers will be assessed by the systematic criteria or rubric (i.e., selecting an appropriate topic, the paper's focus, logical organization, fair use of scholarly resources and engaging & coherent in-depth discussions, etc.). Please remember that I will check the originality of all Final Research Papers through the online program. If your paper is found to significantly overlap with others' writings without adequate citations or reuse the previous term papers submitted to other courses (ex., both papers' contents are almost identical), and your paper is detected to using Chat GPT or other AI programs, you will fail this course. Students must know what acts can constitute academic misconduct on their responsibility.

受講および研究に関するアドバイス

教科書

教科書(使用頻度、その他補足)

参考書

書名 著者 出版社 ISBNコード 備考
Race and Ethnicity: Culture, Identity and Representation (Second Edition) Spencer, Stephen Routledge 9781134086597 We will use it for several classes. Available as an e-book form.
Ethnicity and Race: Making Identities in a Changing World (Second Edition) Ethnicity and Race: Making Identities in a Changing World (Second Edition) Pine Forge Press 9781412941105 We will use as a reference text.
"Mixed-Race" Studies: A Reader "Mixed-Race" Studies: A Reader Routledge 9780203643617 Reference reading text for Week 5.
Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives Eriksen, Thomas Hylland Pluto Press 9780745330433 We will use it for several classes. Available as an e-book form.
Statehood and Self-Determination: Reconciling Tradition and Modernity in International Law French, Duncan (ed.) Cambridge University Press 9781139248952 We will use it for several classes. Available as an e-book form.
Multiculturalism in East Asia Iwabuchi, Koichi, Kim, Hyun Mee, Hsia, Hsiao-Chuan (eds.) Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 9781783484997 We will use it for the Week 11 class. Available as an e-book form.
Routledge Handbook of Ethnic Conflict Cordell, Karl, and Wolff, Stefan (eds.) Routledge 9780203845493 We will use it for several classes. Available as an e-book form.

参考書(使用頻度、その他補足)

You can find most of the reading texts above in the online Library databases you can avail via a VPN connection.

参考になるwwwページ

授業内外における学生・教員間のコミュニケーションの方法

学生との直接対話

備考

Please contact me at ttr16163@fc.ritsumei.ac.jp if you need to talk to the instructor before beginning the course.
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