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Rethinking Ethnicity Majority Groups & Dominant Minorities
Paperback Edition: 1/2004
How are the English in England, the Jews of Israel, the Baltic Russians and Gulf Arabs responding to the pressure of a global era? Are such groups in decline, or are they successfully negotiating or resisting the challenge of new global values? The impact of
the forces of globalization and increased migration has meant that nations, mostly formed on the basis of a dominant ethnic group, are facing pressure to change their self-definitions from ethnic to civic criteria. Nations are encouraged to look to the future and to treasure cultural diversity, rather than their homogeneity and past, and to be open to foreign trade, immigration and cultural influences, leading to a growing gap between modern nations and dominant ethnic groups.
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Contents:
Part 1: Conceptualizing Dominant Ethnicity 1. Introduction. Dominant Ethnicity: From background to foreground Eric Kaufmann 2. Ethnic Cores and Dominant Ethnies Anthony D. Smith 3. The Identity and Changing Status of Former Elite Minorities: The contrasting cases of north Indian muslims and American 'WASPs' Theodore Wright 4. Dominant Ethnicity and Dominant Nationhood: With a focus on Switzerland, Mexico and Iraq Andreas Wimmer Part 2: Dominant Ethnicity in Transition 5. The Decline of the 'WASP' in Canada and the United States Eric Kaufmann 6. Pure Laine' Quebecois in Quebec Danielle Juteau 7. The Concept of 'Dominant Ethnicity' in the Case of France Dominique Schnapper 8. The Strange Death of Protestant Britain Steve Bruce 9. Russians as a Dominant Ethnie Geoffrey Hosking Part 3: Dominant Ethnicity Resurgent 10. Citizenship, Immigration and Ethnic Hegemony in Japan Keiko Yamanaka 11. Towards a Theory of Ethnocratic Regimes: Learning from the judaization of Israel/Palestine Oren Yiftachel and As'ad Ghanem 12. 'Majority Ethnic' Claims and Authoritarian Nationalism: The case of Hindutva Chetan Bhatt 13. The Dynamics of Ethnic Minority Domination in Fiji Ralph Premda
Pages : 254
Publisher : Routledge
Subjects: Non-fiction, Social Sciences, Sociology, Ethnic Minorities & Multicultural Studies, Ethnic Studies