Race and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective (National Political Science Review)
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: February 4, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780765804358
Subjects: Cultural studies; Ethnography; Multicultural studies; Social issues; Ethnic Politics; Race And Ethnic Relations; Social Science; Sociology; Europe; Latin America; Anthropology - Physical; Discrimination & Racism
Description: The essays in Race and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective lucidly explore some of the complexities of the persistence and re-emergence of race and ethnicity as major lines of divisiveness around the world. Contributors analyze manifestations of race-based movements for political empowerment in Europe and Latin America as well as racial intolerance in these same settings. Attention is also given to the conceptual complexities of multidimensional and shared cultural roots of the overlapping phenomena of ethnicity, nationalism, identity, and ideology. The book greatly informs discussions of race and ethnicity in the international context and provides an interesting perspective against which to view America's changing problem of race. Race and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective is a volume that will be of value to ethnic studies specialists, African American studies scholars, political scientists, historians, and sociologists.