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 94
... territory could be reduced . It followed from it that successful administration of a tropical dependency had to be done with as few Europeans as possible . Europeans were expensive to bring in and to maintain at the princely level to ...
... territory could be reduced . It followed from it that successful administration of a tropical dependency had to be done with as few Europeans as possible . Europeans were expensive to bring in and to maintain at the princely level to ...
Page 192
... territorial interpenetration of the ethnies . The more peo- ple live outside their home territory , the more scattered ethnic enclaves are , and , the more people live in multiethnic cities , the more difficult territorial partition ...
... territorial interpenetration of the ethnies . The more peo- ple live outside their home territory , the more scattered ethnic enclaves are , and , the more people live in multiethnic cities , the more difficult territorial partition ...
Page 221
... Territorial dispersal negatively affects ethnic solidarity for the simple reason that ethnics have in most cases to be ... territory where they attempted to isolate themselves and to create a self - contained society . Religious groups ...
... Territorial dispersal negatively affects ethnic solidarity for the simple reason that ethnics have in most cases to be ... territory where they attempted to isolate themselves and to create a self - contained society . Religious groups ...
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 |