Global multiculturalism : comparative perspectives on ethnicity race and nation Machine generated contents note: Preface ix Introduction: National Boundaries Transnational Identities Grant H. Corwell and Eve Walsh Stoddard 1 Part I. Multiculturalism and Ethnicity: Contested Ownership of National Culture 1 Miscegenation as a Metaphor for Nation Building: The Douglarization Controversy in Trinidad and Tobago Eve Walsh Stoddard and Grant H. Comwell 29 2 The Chinese in Thailand: Ethnicity Power and Cultural Opportunity Structures Ansil Ramsay 51 3 To Be French : Franco Maghrebians and the Commission de la Nationalite Judith DeGroat 73 4 Spectacular Imaginings: Performing Community in Guatemala Kirk W. Fuoss and Randall T G. Hill 93 Part II. Multiculturalism and Race: Alternative Constructions of Black and White 5 Brazil: Interactions and Conflicts in a Multicultural Society Edimilson de Almeida Pereira and Steven E White 123 6 Songs in a Strange Land: Dual Consciousness and the Narrative of African American Identity in the United States Joseph Kling 143 7 Letting the Side Down: Personal Reflections on Colonial and Independent Kenya Celia Nyamweru 169 8 Race and the Formation of Cuban National and Cultural Identity Henley C. Adams 193 Part mI. Multiculturalism and Politics: Constitutional Approaches to Inequality 9 The Zimbabwe Constitution: Race Land Reform and Social Justice Patricia Alden and John Mw. Makumbe 215 10 Bosnia: Two Days in November William Hunt 239 11 The Crisis of the Mexican State and the Nation: Chiapas as Metaphor Laura Nuzzi OShaughnessy 263 12 Chinas Ethnicities: State Ideology and Policy in Historical Perspective Anne Csete 287 13 Official Multiculturalism in Canada: Between Virtue and Politics Louis Dupont and Nathalie Lemarchand 309 Index 337 About the Contributors 351