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Race and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective - The National Political Science Review (Hardcover)
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Race and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective - The National Political Science Review (Hardcover)
Series: National Political Science Review Series
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Contradictory forces are at play at the close of the twentieth
century. There is a growing closeness of peoples fueled by old and
new technologies of modern aviation, digital-based communications,
new patterns of trade and commerce, and growing affluence of
significant portions of the world's population. Television permits
individuals around the world to learn about the cultures and
lifestyles of peoples of physically distant lands. These
developments give real meaning to the notion of a global village.
Peoples of the world are growing closer in new and increasingly
important ways. Nonetheless, there are disturbing signs of a
growing awareness of ethnic differences in all parts of the world
the United States included and a concomitant rise in ethnic-based
conflicts, many of them extraordinarily violent in nature. Fear,
resentment, intoler-ance, and mistreatment of the "other" abound in
world news accounts. Not only does this phenomenon pose an
interesting juxtaposition to the concept of the emergent glo-bal
village, but its emergence in the post-cold war era internationally
and the post-civil rights era in the United States raises
significant and compelling questions. Why are such conflicts
occurring now? How do analysts explain these developments? The
essays in Race and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective lucidly
explore some of the complexities of the persistence and
re-emergence of race and ethnicity as major lines of divisiveness
around the world. Contributors analyze manifestations of race-based
movements for political empowerment in Europe and Latin America as
well as racial intolerance in these same settings. Attention is
also given to the conceptual complexi-ties of multidimensional and
shared cultural roots of the overlapping phenomena of ethnicity,
nationalism, identity, and ideology. The book greatly informs
discussions of race and ethnicity in the international context and
provides an interesting perspective against which to view America's
changing problem of race. Race and Ethnicity in Com-parative
Perspective is a timely, thought-provoking volume that will be of
immense value to ethnic studies specialists, African American
studies scholars, political scientists, his-torians, and
sociologists.
General
Imprint: |
Routledge
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
National Political Science Review Series |
Release date: |
March 2018 |
First published: |
1999 |
Editors: |
Georgia A. Persons
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Dimensions: |
254 x 178mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
313 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-138-53135-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Politics & government >
General
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LSN: |
1-138-53135-9 |
Barcode: |
9781138531352 |
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