Author: Jeffrey G. ReitzPublisher: Scarborough, Ont. : McGraw-Hill Ryerson
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The Survival of Ethnic Groups
Author: Jeffrey G. ReitzPublisher: Scarborough, Ont. : McGraw-Hill Ryerson
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Indigenous Peoples, Ethnic Groups, and the State
Author: David Maybury-LewisPublisher: Pearson
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Indigenous Peoples, Ethnic Groups, and the State provides a concise introduction to the process of modernization and its effect on tribalism and ethnic parochialism. Part of the Cultural Survival Studies in Ethnicity and Change series, this text focuses on key issues affecting indigenous and ethnic groups worldwide. Ethnic conflicts proliferate throughout the world as indigenous peoples are becoming increasingly vocal in demanding their rights, including the right to be different. Readers are invited to reexamine their ideas about the state, the role of ethnicity in it, and the peculiar situation of indigenous peoples, who are ethnic minorities alien to the states in which they live.
Chosen Peoples
Author: Anthony D. SmithPublisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 9780192100177
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
From the moment of God's covenant with Abraham in the Old Testament, the idea that a people are chosen by God has had a central role in shaping national identity. This text argues that sacred belief remains central to national identity, even in an increasingly secular, globalized modern world.
Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas
Author: Gwendolyn Midlo HallPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807876862
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Enslaved peoples were brought to the Americas from many places in Africa, but a large majority came from relatively few ethnic groups. Drawing on a wide range of materials in four languages as well as on her lifetime study of slave groups in the New World, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall explores the persistence of African ethnic identities among the enslaved over four hundred years of the Atlantic slave trade. Hall traces the linguistic, economic, and cultural ties shared by large numbers of enslaved Africans, showing that despite the fragmentation of the diaspora many ethnic groups retained enough cohesion to communicate and to transmit elements of their shared culture. Hall concludes that recognition of the survival and persistence of African ethnic identities can fundamentally reshape how people think about the emergence of identities among enslaved Africans and their descendants in the Americas, about the ways shared identity gave rise to resistance movements, and about the elements of common African ethnic traditions that influenced regional creole cultures throughout the Americas.
Ethnic Solidarity for Economic Survival
Author: Pyong Gap MinPublisher:
ISBN: 9781610447188
Category : Korean American business enterprises
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
On the Margins of Tibet
Author: Ashild KolasPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 9780295984810
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The state of Tibetan culture within contemporary China is a highly politicized topic on which reliable information is rare. Based on fieldwork and interviews conducted between 1998 and 2000 in China's Tibetan Autonomous Prefectures, this book investigates the present conditions of Tibetan cultural life and cultural expression.
Ethnic Communities in Business
Author: Robin WardPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521263271
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The first broad review of the development of business among ethnic minorities in Britain.
Critical Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health in Late Life
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309092116
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 753
Book Description
In their later years, Americans of different racial and ethnic backgrounds are not in equally good-or equally poor-health. There is wide variation, but on average older Whites are healthier than older Blacks and tend to outlive them. But Whites tend to be in poorer health than Hispanics and Asian Americans. This volume documents the differentials and considers possible explanations. Selection processes play a role: selective migration, for instance, or selective survival to advanced ages. Health differentials originate early in life, possibly even before birth, and are affected by events and experiences throughout the life course. Differences in socioeconomic status, risk behavior, social relations, and health care all play a role. Separate chapters consider the contribution of such factors and the biopsychosocial mechanisms that link them to health. This volume provides the empirical evidence for the research agenda provided in the separate report of the Panel on Race, Ethnicity, and Health in Later Life.
American Multiculturalism and Ethnic Survival
Author: Renate von BardelebenPublisher: Mainzer Studien zur Amerikanistik
ISBN: 9783631612187
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this collection of essays, Americanists from the United States, Germany, and Latvia enter the scholarly debate about the ever increasing pluralization of societies on the North American continent by correlating the issues of multiculturalism and ethnic survival. Spanning six centuries and covering the cultural work and literary representation of eight ethnic groups in the USA and Canada, the essays demonstrate that the scope of the debate has to be widened to reflect the complexity of a subject which has too long been reduced to convenient but simplistic binaries.
The Politics of Ethnic Survival
Author: Gary B. CohenPublisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 1557534047
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
The German-speaking inhabitants of the Bohemian capital developed a group identification and defined themselves as a minority as they dealt with growing Czech political and economic strength in the city and with their own sharp numerical decline: in the 1910 census only seven percent of the metropolitan population claimed that they spoke primarily German. The study uses census returns, extensive police and bureaucratic records, newspaper accounts, and memoirs on local social and political life to show how the German minority and the Czech majority developed demographically and economically in relation to each other and created separate social and political lives for their group members. The study carefully traces the roles of occupation, class, religion, and political ideology in the formation of German group loyalties and social solidarities.