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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... Israeli position . The justification for the state of Israel ( and for the Jewish sectarian nature of the state ) is that Jews have a long - standing historical claim to Palestine , that they have had a continuous presence in the region ...
... Israeli position . The justification for the state of Israel ( and for the Jewish sectarian nature of the state ) is that Jews have a long - standing historical claim to Palestine , that they have had a continuous presence in the region ...
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... Israel and its Arab neighbors and the im- peratives of survival . The antithesis to this picture of Israel , as a refuge for a persecuted minority and an egalitarian Promised Land for all Jews everywhere , is the Arab ide- ology of Israel ...
... Israel and its Arab neighbors and the im- peratives of survival . The antithesis to this picture of Israel , as a refuge for a persecuted minority and an egalitarian Promised Land for all Jews everywhere , is the Arab ide- ology of Israel ...
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... Israel . Yet , increasingly , Oriental intellectuals realize that Arabization is perhaps best for Israel's survival . Not only are two - thirds of the population of pre - 1967 Israel basically Arabic in language and culture ( i.e. ...
... Israel . Yet , increasingly , Oriental intellectuals realize that Arabization is perhaps best for Israel's survival . Not only are two - thirds of the population of pre - 1967 Israel basically Arabic in language and culture ( i.e. ...
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Theories and Ideologies | 1 |
The Biology of Nepotism | 15 |
The Ecology | 37 |
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Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights Will Kymlicka No preview available - 1996 |