Eric P. Kaufmann (ed.)

Rethinking Ethnicity

Majority Groups and Dominant Minorities
Herausgeber: Kaufmann, Eric P

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How are dominant ethnic groups, whether majority groups or dominant minorities, responding to the pressures of a global era? Are such groups in decline or are they successfully negotiating or resisting the challenge of new global values? The impact of liberal globalization and multiculturalism means that nations are under pressure to transform their national identities from an ethnic to a civic mode. This has led, in many cases, to dominant ethnic decline, but also to its peripheral revival in the form of Far Right politics. At the same time, the growth of mass democracy and the decline of post-colonial and Cold War state unity in the developing world has opened the floodgates for assertions of ethnic dominance. This volume investigates both tendencies and argues forcefully for the importance of dominant ethnicity in the contemporary world. This volume begins with four conceptual chapters, rich in examples from the past and present, which outline the theoretical foundations of dominant ethnicity. Two further sections present detailed case studies exploring dominant ethnicity in decline, transition and resurgence in North America, the Middle East, Europe and Asia. This book will app

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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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9780415315432
• ISBN-10: 0415315433
• Artikelnr.: 21133418

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