Posted: December 17th, 2014

Dictionary Entry: Ethnicity

Dictionary Entry: Ethnicity

Project description
A dictionary entry of 1000 words defining ethnicity using four coursework sources and 6 other sources.

The assignment criteria:
Dictionary entry: Students will be asked to write a critical, 1,000 word, single-spaced dictionary entry for ethnicity with peer-reviewed sources (see course goals 1, 4). The field of theoretical discourse has grown more and more complex with the rise of interdisciplinarity. Some have attributed the demise of theory as a cry for a house that could provide shelter from empiricism, but much of it is also motivated by the fact that theories facilitate explanation, relating conceptual constructs to observable phenomena. Theories are never politically innocent, for they express political prejudices and often reproduce them unintentionally. Note: Late work will be accepted with a deduction of 2 grade points per day.

I will also upload the grading rubric.
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Referencing Requirements:
At least four coursework sources must be used and 6 outside sources.

The coursework sources are:
Joane Nagel. Chapter 6 “Red Power: Reforging Identity and Culture,” and “Renewing Culture and Community,” pp. 15878 and 187205. In American Indian Ethnic Renewal

Kanchan Chandra What is ethnic identity and does it matter? Annu. Rev.Polit. Sci. 2006.9:397-424 Online: http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/politics/faculty/chandra/ars2005.pdf

hooks, bell Chapter 4 Racism and Feminism: The Issue of Accountability in Aint I a Woman? Black Women and feminism

Smedley, Audrey. The History of the Idea of RaceAnd Why it Matters March 14-17, 2007 AAA Conference Paper. Online: http://www.understandingrace.org/resources/pdf/disease/smedley.pdf

When Victims become Killers (Intro; Ch. 1-2) Mahmood Mamdani, Princeton

John McGarry and Brenadan OLeary, Explaining Northern Ireland: Broken Images (Chapter 1, 5, 6 and 9)

Concerning Violence and Pitfalls of national Consciousness in Wretched of the earth Frantz Fanon, Grove Press, 1963 Online: http://zeroanthropology.net/2009/03/12/frantz-fanon-concerning-violence/

Mamdani’s source must be used with emphasis on his writings on ethnicity.

INS 400: Scoring Guide for Dictionary Entry
Student ID#: ________________________________
Rating    Comments
Content: produces a unified dictionary entry that clearly and cogently defines ethnicity, highlighting major conceptual-empirical developments in the social sciences; explains how selected studies have contributed to the scholarly understanding of ethnicity; distinguishes clearly between ethnicity and race as social science constructs.    /    /10

Peer-reviewed sources:  consults a total of ten reputable, peer-reviewed journal articles and/or books from the social sciences—three or four of which must be sources covered in class, including Mahmoud Mamdani’s When Victims Become Killers; the sources selected contribute significantly to explaining ethnicity as a social scientific concept.     /   /5

Wording and Mechanics: chooses and arranges words carefully to promote ease of reading; no needless repetition; careful proofreading (free of spelling, grammar, and syntax errors, including comma splices, subject-verb agreement errors, run-on sentences or sentence fragments); creative with vocabulary and observations.    /   /3

Organization: uses an orderly structure that facilitates reading, sustaining the reader’s interest through effective paragraph development and use of proper transitions, presenting a logical flow of ideas.    /   /2

Numerical Grade:
/20    Letter Grade:

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