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Race and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective - The National Political Science Review (Paperback)
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Race and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective - The National Political Science Review (Paperback)
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.
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