Rethinking Ethnicity (eBook, ePUB)

Majority Groups and Dominant Minorities
Redaktion: Kaufmann, Eric P.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Globalization and migration are pressuring nations around the world to change their ethnic self-definition and to treasure diversity not homogeneity. This book explores the growing gap between modern nations and their dominant ethnic groups.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134376285
• Artikelnr.: 38260732

Autorenporträt

Eric P. Kaufmann is Lecturer in Politics and Sociology at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is also the author of The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America: The Decline of Dominant Ethnicity in the United States (Harvard University Press, 2004).

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Conceptualizing Dominant Ethnicity 1. Introduction Dominant
Ethnicity: From background to foreground 2. Ethnic Cores and Dominant
Ethnies Anthony 3. The Identity and Changing Status of Former Elite
Minorities: The contrasting cases of north Indian muslims and American
'WASPs' 4. Dominant Ethnicity and Dominant Nationhood: With a focus on
Switzerland, Mexico and Iraq Part 2: Dominant Ethnicity in Transition 5.
The Decline of the 'WASP' in Canada and the United States 6. Pure Laine'
Québecois in Quebec 7.The Concept of 'Dominant Ethnicity' in the Case of
France 8. The Strange Death of Protestant Britain 9. Russians as a Dominant
Ethnie Part 3: Dominant Ethnic Resurgence 10. Citizenship, Immigration and
Ethnic Hegemony in Japan 11. Towards a Theory of Ethnocratic Regimes:
Learning from the judaization of Israel/Palestine12. 'Majority Ethnic'
Claims and Authoritarian Nationalism: The case of Hindutva 13. The Dynamics
of Ethnic Minority Domination in Fiji