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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... Jews have a sense of destiny and make a claim to special divine attention . Even while in the diaspora , Jews have , considering how few they were , made extraordinary contributions to both Arab Muslim and European Chris- tian ...
... Jews have a sense of destiny and make a claim to special divine attention . Even while in the diaspora , Jews have , considering how few they were , made extraordinary contributions to both Arab Muslim and European Chris- tian ...
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... Jewish terms , but the situation is made far more complex by a profound double cleavage within the Jewish population . I have already alluded to the cleavage between the 30 % of the Jews who are Orthodox , insisting that Israel must be ...
... Jewish terms , but the situation is made far more complex by a profound double cleavage within the Jewish population . I have already alluded to the cleavage between the 30 % of the Jews who are Orthodox , insisting that Israel must be ...
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... Jews were random , would be about 50 % . ( By means of comparison , the rate of Ashkenazim - Oriental intermar- riage in Israel is well below the percentage of Jews who marry Gentiles in the United States . ) The whole issue of ...
... Jews were random , would be about 50 % . ( By means of comparison , the rate of Ashkenazim - Oriental intermar- riage in Israel is well below the percentage of Jews who marry Gentiles in the United States . ) The whole issue of ...
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 |