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Author : Pierre L. Van den Berghe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Africa
ISBN : UCSC:32106000481371
Author : Brian M. du Toit
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429726934
The fifteen essays written for this volume reflect the increasing importance for social scientists of ethnic, rather than physical or tribal, criteria for classifying modern population groups. The authors—from South Africa, the United States, South West Africa (Namibia), Nigeria, and Scotland—cover most of Africa south of the Sahara. They consider the range from large national population groupings to small-scale societies attempting to maintain their social boundaries, and discuss such topics as emergent nationalism, ethnic divisiveness, social distance, voluntary association, and the role of women. The first section is concerned with particular communities, peoples, and ethnic groups, and treats traditional tribal groupings as well as communities delineated on phenotypic grounds. In the second section, the focus turns to modern situations of interaction; the two major themes discussed here are situational ethnicity and situational realignment. The third section deals with color, one of the physical criteria of ethnic identification; here the authors discuss the political and legal implications of a system based on color. The last essay reports on current changes in attitude and organization within the countries of white-ruled southern Africa.
Author : Crawford Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Africa
ISBN : UOM:39015056319232
Author : Elizabeth Obadina
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-29
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781422288849
Ethnic or racial classifications often say more about culture and shared experience than about genetics or common ancestry. In Africa, a continent where up to 3,000 languages are spoken, ethnicity can be especially difficult to define. Unfortunately, perceived ethnic differences have all too often produced tragic results. This book analyzes the role of ethnicity in contemporary African politics and governance. It examines the corrosive legacy of the slave trade and European colonization, details some of the bloody conflicts that have erupted from ethnic frictions, and describes how divisions that appear to be ethnically based often have more to do with class and religion. The book also explores the possibility of a united Africa, able to harness its diversity rather than fight over its differences.
Author : Peter G. Forster,Michael Hitchcock,Francis F. Lyimo
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0312226071
Race and ethnicity continue to be important if unwelcome factors in modern politics. This is evident in East Africa, where the ethnic factor is often dominant in multi-party elections and in Rwanda and Burundi bloodshed and genocidal attacks have been linked to ethnic difference. This book examines the phenomena of race and ethnicity in general, but with particular reference to East Africa. The impact of non-indigenous groups is considered, along with ethnic differences between Africans and the relevance of tourism and religion.
Author : Bruce Berman,Dickson Eyoh,Will Kymlicka
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015060381855
"The politics of identity and ethnicity are resurgent. Civil society, whose revival was much vaunted, was riven by communal tensions particularly of ethnicity and religion. The contributors address questions such as: Why is ethnicity a political problem? How is the problem manifested? Which institutional models offer ways of ameliorating the challenges that ethnicity poses to democratic nation-building?".--BOOKJACKET.
Author : R. T. Akinyele
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110479099
Author : P. Forster,M. Hitchcock,F. Lyimo
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1349401293
Race and ethnicity continue to be important, if unwelcome, factors in modern politics. This is evident in East Africa: the ethnic factor is often dominant in multi-party elections, while in Rwanda and Burundi bloodshed and genocidal attacks have been linked to ethnic difference. This book examines the phenomena of race and ethnicity in general, but with particular reference to Africa, especially the East. The impact of non-indigenous groups is considered, together with ethnic differences between Africans. The relevance of tourism and religion is also examined.
Author : Toyin Falola,Cacee Hoyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134849758
"Black," "African," "African descendant" and "of African heritage," are just some of the ways Africans and Africans in the diaspora (both old and new) describe themselves. This volume examines concepts of race, ethnicity, and identity as they are ascribed to people of colour around the world, examining different case studies of how the process of identity formation occurred and is changing. Contributors to this volume, selected from a wide range of academic and cultural backgrounds, explore issues that encourage a deeper understanding of race, ethnicity and identity. As our notions about what it means to be black or of African heritage change as a result of globalization, it is important to reassess how these issues are currently developing, and the origins from which these issues developed. Global Africans is an important and insightful book, useful to a wide range of students and scholars, particularly of African studies, sociology, diaspora studies, and race and ethnic studies.
Author : Seyoum Y. Hameso
Publisher : Tsc
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : IND:30000056802691
Identifies 'backwardness', social segregation, elite manipulation and mass demand for change as the main causes of ethnic conflict.
Author : Eghosa E. Osaghae
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070195743
Author : Peter Ratcliffe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135361846
This text offers an international and comparative analysis of social division rooted in race, ethnicity and national identity. It provides an overview of the key issues underlying ethnic conflict which has now risen to the top of the international political agenda.; This book is intended for academics, postgraduates and senior undergraduates within sociology, race and ethnicity, social anthropology, as well as those involved in other areas such as politics, geography, development studies and international relations with an interest in ethnicity.
Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Population,Panel on Race, Ethnicity, and Health in Later Life
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309092111
In their later years, Americans of different racial and ethnic backgrounds are not in equally good-or equally poor-health. There is wide variation, but on average older Whites are healthier than older Blacks and tend to outlive them. But Whites tend to be in poorer health than Hispanics and Asian Americans. This volume documents the differentials and considers possible explanations. Selection processes play a role: selective migration, for instance, or selective survival to advanced ages. Health differentials originate early in life, possibly even before birth, and are affected by events and experiences throughout the life course. Differences in socioeconomic status, risk behavior, social relations, and health care all play a role. Separate chapters consider the contribution of such factors and the biopsychosocial mechanisms that link them to health. This volume provides the empirical evidence for the research agenda provided in the separate report of the Panel on Race, Ethnicity, and Health in Later Life.
Author : S.J. Tarimo
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956579785
This volume, from an Africa perspective, examines the relationship between ethnicity and citizenship within the framework of nation-state. Its objective and scope engage relational aspects of political integration, awaken public conscience, and motivate civic engagement. It provides a platform that could be considered prerequisite for political transformation. Such a framework is indispensable not only for challenging the politics of exclusion and marginalization, but also for reconstructing fractured social relationships. The test of its validity and relevancy is not whether it accounts for particular traditions, but whether it provides a framework through which we can comprehend the dynamics of ethnic identities as an avenue for promoting participatory governance and democratic accountability. An interdisciplinary study of this kind brings forth practical and theoretical contributions to the evolving concepts of ethnicity and citizenship.
Author : Katsuyoshi Fukui,John Markakis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015031814356
Conflicts in the Horn have all too often dominated press coverage of Africa. This book exposes the subtle and ambiguous role ethnicity can plan in social conflict, a role that is nowhere as simple and direct as commonly assumed. Social conflict is routinely attributed to ethnic differentiation because dividing lines between rival groups often follow ethnic contours and cultural symbolism has proved a potent ideological weapon. The purpose of this book is to examine the nature of the bond linking ethnicity to conflict in a variety of circumstances. The diverse groups are involved in confrontations at different levels and varying intensity, ranging from elemental struggles for physical survival of groups at the margin of society, to contests for state power and control of resources at the center. These ten studies from Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Kenya are based on primary research by anthropologists and historians who have long experience of the region. The insights gained from this comparative work help to refine common assumptions about conflict among ethnic groups.