Racial consciousness
By: Michael Banton.
Publisher: Longman
Published: 1988
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 153
Subjects: Race.; Race awareness.; Race relations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Physical and cultural differences. Practical language -- Racial relations -- Conflict -- Accounting for differences. Explanations -- Ethnicity -- Racism -- Groups and individuals. European expansion -- Continuous and discontinuous ranking -- Assimilation -- Peoples and states. Implications of empire -- Rwanda and Burundi -- Genocide -- Constitutional law -- Increasing racial consciousness. Racial classification -- Segregation -- Sanctions -- Group competition -- Transmitted inequality -- Responses to racial subordination -- Decreasing racial consciousness. Policy -- Law and its enforcement -- Discrimination and disadvantage -- Attitudes -- The battle of the name -- Conclusion. The nation-state -- Religion -- Immigration. Student’s appendix -- Glossary.