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The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race is an interdisciplinary space that has a pedagogical mission in the College and a research mission for the Columbia community as a whole. CSER is the home of three undergraduate majors: Asian-American Studies, Comparative Ethnic Studies, and Latino/a Studies. The Center privileges the analysis of contemporary and historical social formations from the perspective of minoritized social groups. CSER favors socially pertinent work and keen engagement in a politics of recognition.
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The field of Race, Ethnicity and Politics at UCLA is a hybrid field built around the problem of racial and ethnic difference and modern politics. UCLA is one of the only political science departments to have a Race, Ethnicity and Politics field and perhaps the only to move beyond thinking of the problem of race as confined to American politics in an institutional way. The field includes faculty and students who associate with all of the subfield in political science but whose work primarily is engaged in studying the relationship between governance, policies, conflict, and attitudes through the lens of race and ethnicity. The field encourages cross-subfield work and cross-disciplinary work toward understanding modern phenomena like nation building, citizenship, social movements, ethnic conflict, elections, immigration and a host of other political phenomena.
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The conference "Ethnicity in Today's Europe" at Stanford will address this topic in an interdisciplinary manner. Participants will focus on the question: "What's new about the situation in Europe today?" Bringing together scholars from different disciplines, the conference will provide a historical perspective together with contributions addressing economic, social, cultural, and political issues. Some themes that may be discussed include: how the current situation mirrors or departs from the past; the role of the media in portraying the interaction between different groups; the different perspectives of specific populations within Europe; whether Europe's diversity is best described under the rubric of ethnicity, nationality, race, or some other term; similarities and differences between European nation-states with regard to diversity within their borders. Above all, participants will use their own disciplinary perspective to assess what is at stake in the interaction between peoples in Europe as the twenty-first century gets underway.
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Ethnicity is situational. The implication is that people have different ethnic identities in different situations. Their salience is affected by such factors as the distribution of desired resources and the objectives of the people concerned. Thus it is possible to be simultaneously English, British, and European, stressing these identities more or less strongly in different aspects of daily life. Similarly, the same person might identify as Gujerati, Indian, Hindu, East African Asian, or British depending on situation, immediate objectives, and the responses and behaviour of others.
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This table shows the major concepts that questions on Ethnicity may be concerned with. To locate the relevant questionnaires in which such questions are found, click on the links displayed under the heading Year(s). The PDF Search Function can then be used if desired questions cannot immediately be located. For more general information on the surveys in which these are contained, click on the links in the column entitled Surveys.
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Ethnicity is an inherent characteristic of humanity. Thus any grouping of humans includes some ethnic component. However, there are groupings of humans that do not in themselves constitute ethnicity (are not sufficiently integrative as to be primary factors in group self-identity).
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