Global Multiculturalism Comparative Perspectives on Ethnicity, Race, and Nation |
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Author:
| Cornwell, Grant H. Stoddard, Eve Walsh |
Contribution by:
| Adams, Henley Alden, Patricia Csete, Anne Groat, Judith De Almeida Pereira, Edimilson de Dupont, Louis Fuoss, Kirk H. Hill, Randall T. Hunt, William Kling, Joseph LeMarchand, Nathalie Makumbe, John Nyamweru, Celia O'Shaughnessy, Laura Nuzzi Ramsay, Ansil White, Steven F. |
ISBN: | 978-0-7425-0883-5 |
Publication Date: | Dec 2000 |
Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $86.00 |
Book Description:
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Global Multiculturalism offers a rich collection of case studies on ethnic, racial, and cultural diversity drawn from thirteen countries, each unique in the way it understands, negotiates, and represents its diversity. A multi-disciplinary group of authors shows how, in different nations, identity groups are included, or made invisible by forced assimilation, or reviled even to the point of genocide. Framed within a theoretical discussion of national identity, transnationalism,...
More DescriptionGlobal Multiculturalism offers a rich collection of case studies on ethnic, racial, and cultural diversity drawn from thirteen countries, each unique in the way it understands, negotiates, and represents its diversity. A multi-disciplinary group of authors shows how, in different nations, identity groups are included, or made invisible by forced assimilation, or reviled even to the point of genocide. Framed within a theoretical discussion of national identity, transnationalism, hybridity, and diaspora, each chapter surveys the demographics and history of its country and then analyzes the dynamics of diversity.