Readings

LEC # TOPICS READINGS
1 Introduction
2 What is Citizenship and Why Does It Matter? Marshall, T. H. "Citizenship and Social Class." In Citizenship and Social Class, and Other Essays.

Brubaker, Rogers. Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany. Pp. 1-34 and 179-187.

Smith, Rogers M. "Citizenship and the Politics of People-Building." Pp. 73-96.

Suggested: Anderson, Benedict. Chapters 1-4, 8 in Imagined Communities. Pp. 1-65 and 141-154.
3 What is Pluralism? Pluralism of What? Berlin, Isaiah. "Two Concepts of Liberty." In Four Essays on Liberty. Pp. 118-134 and 162-172.

Gray, John. "Pluralism." In Isaiah Berlin. Pp. 38-75.

Rawls, John. Lecture I and IV in Political Liberalism. Pp. 3-46 and 133-172.

Parekh, Bhikhu. Rethinking Multiculturalism. Pp. 1-11.

Suggested: Walzer, Michael. "Pluralism: A Political Perspective." In Rights of Minority Cultures. Pp. 139-154.
One Response To Pluralism: Multicultural Citizenship
4 Liberal Arguments for Multicultural Citizenship Dworkin, Ronald. "Essay on Liberal Support for the Arts." In A Matter of Principle.

Kymlicka, Will. Chapters 7-9 in Liberalism, Community, and Culture. Pp. 135-205.

———. Chapters 1-2, 5-6, 8 in Multicultural Citizenship. Pp. 1-33, 75-130 and 152-172.
5 Communitarian Arguments for Multicultural Citizenship Taylor, Charles. "The Politics of Recognition." In Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition. Pp. 25-73.

"Responses by Michael Walzer, Jürgen Habermas, and Anthony Appiah." In Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition. Pp. 99-163.

Suggested: Taylor, Charles. "Institutions in National Life," and "Shared and Divergent Values." In Reconciling the Solitudes. Pp. 120-134 and 155-186.
6 Diversity Arguments for Multicultural Citizenship Mill, John Stuart. "Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion." Chapter 2 in On Liberty.

Kymlicka. "The Value of Cultural Diversity." In Multicultural Citizenship. Pp. 121-123.

Grutter v. Bollinger (2003).

Suggested: Metro Broadcasting, Inc. v. FCC. 1990.
7 Critiques of Multiculturalism Green, Leslie. "Internal Minorities and Their Rights." In The Rights of Minority Cultures. Pp. 256-272.

Barry, Brian. Chapters 1-2, 4, 7-8 in Culture and Equality. Pp. 3-62, 112-154 and 252-328.

Parekh, Bhikhu. Rethinking Multiculturalism. Pp. 264-294.

Fraser, Nancy. "From Redistribution to Recognition?" In Justice Interruptus. Pp. 11-39.
Alternative Responses To Pluralism
8 Civic Republican Views of Citizenship Miller, David. Chapters 3-5 in Citizenship and Nationality Identity. Pp. 41-96.

Sandel, Michael. "In Search of a Public Philosophy." Pp. 317-351.

Lind, Michael. Chapters 7-9 in The Next American Nation. Pp. 259-388.
9 Liberal Views of Citizenship Habermas, Jürgen. "Citizenship and National Identity." In Between Facts and Norms. Pp. 491-515 and 568-69 (photocopy).

Hollinger, David A. "Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the United States." In Immigration and Citizenship in the 21st Century. Edited by Noah Pickus. Pp. 85-99.

Smith, Rogers. "The Party of America." In Civic Ideals. Pp. 470-506 (endnotes, pp. 638-44).
10 Cosmopolitan Views Waldron, Jeremy. "Minority Cultures and the Cosmopolitan Alternative." In Rights of Minority Cultures.

Carens, Joseph. "Aliens and Citizens: The Case for Open Borders." In Rights of Minority Cultures.

Mehta, Pratap. "Cosmopolitanism and the Circle of Reason." In Political Theory. October 2000, pp. 619-639.
11 Radical Pluralist/Postmodern Views Gray, John. "From Post-Liberalism to Pluralism." In Nomos 38: Political Order. Pp. 345-62

Connolly, William. Introduction, and Chapter 6 in The Ethos of Pluralization. Pp. xi-xxx and 163-198.

Honig, Bonnie. Democracy and the Foreigner. Pp. 73-122.
Topics
12 Pluralism and American Citizenship O'Brien, Sharon. "Cultural Rights in the United States: A Conflict of Values." Law and Inequality Journal 5 (1987): 268-308.

Norgren, Jill, and Serena Nanda. Chapters 5-7 on Mormons, Amish, and Satmar Hasidim in American Cultural Pluralism and Law. Pp. 97-155.

Walzer, Michael. What It Means to be an American. Pp. 3-49 and 81-101.

Suggested: Schlesinger, Arthur. The Disuniting of America. Pp. 11-25, 29-49 and 125-147.
13 Pluralism and Gender Okin, Susan. Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? Edited by Joshua Cohen, Matthew Howard, and Martha Nussbaum.
Read essays by Okin's essay and reply, as well as responses by Pollitt, Kymlicka, Honig, al-Hibri, Tamir, Parekh, Sassen, Bhabha, Sunstein, and Nussbaum.

Benhabib, Seyla. Chapter 4 in The Claims of Culture. Pp. 82-104.
14 Rethinking Multiculturalism Parekh, Bhikhu. Introduction, and Chapters 3-5, 7-9 in Rethinking Multiculturalism.