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 150
... urban Africans were almost entirely confined , if they could find employment at all , to menial jobs as domestic servants in European or Asian households , stevedores and day laborers , unskilled construction workers , and policemen ...
... urban Africans were almost entirely confined , if they could find employment at all , to menial jobs as domestic servants in European or Asian households , stevedores and day laborers , unskilled construction workers , and policemen ...
Page 226
... urban centers and surrounded by strangers . Almost wherever they went , they were in the minority as soon as they left their little urban enclaves . More importantly , they entered , for the most part , the bottom of the urban ...
... urban centers and surrounded by strangers . Almost wherever they went , they were in the minority as soon as they left their little urban enclaves . More importantly , they entered , for the most part , the bottom of the urban ...
Page 257
... urban jungle . There is thus nothing paradoxical or problematic about the survival of ethnic col- lectivities in an urban environment . Assimilation is not a simple function of urbanization , " modernization , " " Westernization " or ...
... urban jungle . There is thus nothing paradoxical or problematic about the survival of ethnic col- lectivities in an urban environment . Assimilation is not a simple function of urbanization , " modernization , " " Westernization " or ...
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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 |