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 128
... North American slave population was the only one in the Western Hemisphere that increased more by reproduction than by immigration . In the 50 years between 1810 ( after the slave imports were halted in the United States ) and 1860 ...
... North American slave population was the only one in the Western Hemisphere that increased more by reproduction than by immigration . In the 50 years between 1810 ( after the slave imports were halted in the United States ) and 1860 ...
Page 129
... North America than in the West Indies , because they generally went through middlemen , usually in Jamaica , where they were kept to be " seasoned " and to recover from the Middle Passage before resale for profit on the continent ...
... North America than in the West Indies , because they generally went through middlemen , usually in Jamaica , where they were kept to be " seasoned " and to recover from the Middle Passage before resale for profit on the continent ...
Page 198
... north . The Revolution of 1830 was not a classical nationalist movement at all , and the state it created made neither geographical nor cultural sense . Despite a distin- guished Belgian historian's massive attempt to " prove " the long ...
... north . The Revolution of 1830 was not a classical nationalist movement at all , and the state it created made neither geographical nor cultural sense . Despite a distin- guished Belgian historian's massive attempt to " prove " the long ...
Contents
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 |