Full Description
This text offers an international and comparative analysis of social division rooted in race, ethnicity and national identity. It provides an overview of the key issues underlying ethnic conflict which has now risen to the top of the international political agenda.; This book is intended for academics, postgraduates and senior undergraduates within sociology, race and ethnicity, social anthropology, as well as those involved in other areas such as politics, geography, development studies and international relations with an interest in ethnicity.
Contents
Part 1 Conceptual matters: Conceptualizing race, ethniticity and nation: towards a comparative perspective, Peter Ratcliffe University of Warwick; State, nation and ethnicity: the processual linkages, T.K. Oommen Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Part 2 The salient of race: The dilemma persists: race, class and inequality in American life, Walter R. Allen University of Sydney; South Africa: from race to non-racialism, Rupert Taylor University of the Witwatersrand; Race in Britain: theory, methods and substance, Peter Ratcliffe University of Warwick. Part 3 Ethnicity, nation and ethno-nationalism: Linkages between methodology, research and theory in race and ethnic studies: the case of Sri Lanka, Radhika Coomaraswamy International Centre for ethnic studies, Sri Lanka; Ethno-nationalism in India: political, historical and sociological discourse, Ashok Kaul Banares Hindu University, Banares; The dialectics of theory and research on race and ethnicity in Nigeria, L. Adele Jinadu University of Lagos; Community and ethnicity in Israel: interrelationships of theory and practice, Devorah Kalekin-Fishman University of Haifa; Nation, race and ethnicity in Poland, Antonina Kloskowska University of Warsaw; Between west and east: Tartars in the former USSR, Vasil Ziatdinov Institute of Culture, Moscow; Sviatoslav Grigories University of Altai, Russia.
