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 81
... least , the legal possibility of assimilation now existed , and the expectation generally was that assimilation would come in the end . The ideal of the liberal state is assimilationist . Recently , that is , since the 1960s , there ...
... least , the legal possibility of assimilation now existed , and the expectation generally was that assimilation would come in the end . The ideal of the liberal state is assimilationist . Recently , that is , since the 1960s , there ...
Page 122
... least 15 million people , occupying much of Northern Nigeria and Niger . Islamized some 500 years ago , they have a long tradition of centralized , hierarchical states with a literate ruling class ( M. G. Smith , 1965b ) . The Hausa ...
... least 15 million people , occupying much of Northern Nigeria and Niger . Islamized some 500 years ago , they have a long tradition of centralized , hierarchical states with a literate ruling class ( M. G. Smith , 1965b ) . The Hausa ...
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... least initially , most of the university - level posts in the professions ( engineering , law and medicine ) and the key managerial positions in large transport and business undertakings ( banks , railways and export - import firms ) ...
... least initially , most of the university - level posts in the professions ( engineering , law and medicine ) and the key managerial positions in large transport and business undertakings ( banks , railways and export - import firms ) ...
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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 |