The Ethnic PhenomenonA gem of a book for scholars in race and ethnic relations and sociobiology. . . . Van den Berghe analyzes various forms that race and ethnic relations have displayed including colonial empires, slavery, middleman minorities, caste systems, and assimilation. The causes and consequences of these systems are brilliantly teased out employing historical and crosscultural examples. Libraries with any work at all on race and ethnic relations or sociobiology should acquire this book. Choice |
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Page 68
... 19th century accelerated this process of monarchical centralization under the Dlamini . Swazi is a name given to them by Europeans after a corruption of the name of a 19th century king , Mswati , but they refer to themselves as the ...
... 19th century accelerated this process of monarchical centralization under the Dlamini . Swazi is a name given to them by Europeans after a corruption of the name of a 19th century king , Mswati , but they refer to themselves as the ...
Page 93
... 19th century . Slavery , then , was an expensive solution , and thus a last resort . It was only developed when natives were unavailable or unsuitable , and that meant basically where they belonged to nomadic or seminomadic societies of ...
... 19th century . Slavery , then , was an expensive solution , and thus a last resort . It was only developed when natives were unavailable or unsuitable , and that meant basically where they belonged to nomadic or seminomadic societies of ...
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... century , the " golden age " of the traffic , some 7,000,000 slaves were transported to the Americas . The 19th century marked the first attempts by the British Navy to halt the trade , at least in West Africa , and by the 1850s ...
... century , the " golden age " of the traffic , some 7,000,000 slaves were transported to the Americas . The 19th century marked the first attempts by the British Navy to halt the trade , at least in West Africa , and by the 1850s ...
Contents
Theories and Ideologies | 1 |
The Biology of Nepotism | 15 |
The Ecology | 37 |
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19th century acculturation African Afrikaners American animals apartheid Arab Ashkenazim Asians assimilation Bambuti Bantu basic became become behavior Belgian Belgium Berghe bilingual biological blacks British capitalist chattel slavery clans class and ethnicity colonial common complex conflict conquered conquest consociational consociational democracies consociationalism countries created culture democracy descent developed distinct dominant E. O. Wilson ecological economic elite especially ethnic groups ethnic relations European example exploitation extended favor Flemish French Fulani genes genetic hapu Hausa hierarchy human Hutu ideology immigrants inclusive fitness Indian individual Israel Jews kin selection kinship Kuper labor language linguistic live male million minority multiethnic nation native nepotism organization pariah phenotypically plantation pluralism political polygyny population production Québec race racial racism relationship relatively religious reproductive ruling class Rwanda situation slaves social societies sociobiology South Africa status stigma success Swazi territory trade traditional tropical Tuzi typically United urban villages women
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Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights Will Kymlicka No preview available - 1996 |