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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... population can be when it suddenly encounters an empty niche . With relatively little immigration from Europe , the French population of the Province of Québec multiplied thirteenfold ( from 92,000 in 1771 to 1.2 million in 1871 ) in ...
... population can be when it suddenly encounters an empty niche . With relatively little immigration from Europe , the French population of the Province of Québec multiplied thirteenfold ( from 92,000 in 1771 to 1.2 million in 1871 ) in ...
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... 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 , the " Negro " population ...
... 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 , the " Negro " population ...
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... population are so fluently bilingual that it makes little sense to ask what their home language is . ( The 1947 language census gave 18 % of the Belgian population as bilingual , but this did not necessarily mean that as many were ...
... population are so fluently bilingual that it makes little sense to ask what their home language is . ( The 1947 language census gave 18 % of the Belgian population as bilingual , but this did not necessarily mean that as many were ...
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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 |