The Enigma Of Ethnicity

Author : Wilbur Zelinsky
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781587293399

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In The Enigma of Ethnicity Wilbur Zelinsky draws upon more than half a century of exploring the cultural and social geography of an ever-changing North America to become both biographer and critic of the recent concept of ethnicity. In this ambitious and encyclopedic work, he examines ethnicity's definition, evolution, significance, implications, and entanglements with other phenomena as well as the mysteries of ethnic identity and performance. Zelinsky begins by examining the ways in which “ethnic groups” and “ethnicity” have been defined; his own definitions then become the basis for the rest of his study. He next focuses on the concepts of heterolocalism—the possibility that an ethnic community can exist without being physically merged—and personal identity—the relatively recent idea that one can concoct one's own identity. In his final chapter, which is also his most provocative, he concentrates on the multifaceted phenomenon of multiculturalism and its relationship to ethnicity. Throughout he includes a close look at African Americans, Hispanics, and Jews as well as such less-studied groups as suburbanized Japanese, Cubans in Washington, Koreans, Lithuanian immigrants in Chicago, Estonians in New Jersey, Danish Americans in Seattle, and Finns. Reasonable, nonpolemical, and straightforward, Zelinsky's text is invaluable for readers wanting an in-depth overview of the literature on ethnicity in the United States as well as a well-thought-out understanding of the meanings and dynamics of ethnic groups, ethnicity, and multiculturalism.

Author : Peter Kivisto
Publisher : Balch Institute Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0944190030

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This collection seeks to advance understanding of the shifting character and salience of ethnicity by abandoning the debate between the assimilationist and the cultural pluralist. The case studies presented define culture as a flexible tool, ethnicity as a complex and variable phenomenon, and social actors as knowledgeable agents who make their own history

Author : Ralph R. Premdas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173002190262

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The Enigma of Ethnicity by Ralph R. Premdas Pdf

Author : Ellen Berrey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226246376

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The Enigma of Diversity by Ellen Berrey Pdf

Diversity these days is a hallowed American value, widely shared and honored. That’s a remarkable change from the Civil Rights era—but does this public commitment to diversity constitute a civil rights victory? What does diversity mean in contemporary America, and what are the effects of efforts to support it? Ellen Berrey digs deep into those questions in The Enigma of Diversity. Drawing on six years of fieldwork and historical sources dating back to the 1950s and making extensive use of three case studies from widely varying arenas—housing redevelopment in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood, affirmative action in the University of Michigan’s admissions program, and the workings of the human resources department at a Fortune 500 company—Berrey explores the complicated, contradictory, and even troubling meanings and uses of diversity as it is invoked by different groups for different, often symbolic ends. In each case, diversity affirms inclusiveness, especially in the most coveted jobs and colleges, yet it resists fundamental change in the practices and cultures that are the foundation of social inequality. Berrey shows how this has led racial progress itself to be reimagined, transformed from a legal fight for fundamental rights to a celebration of the competitive advantages afforded by cultural differences. Powerfully argued and surprising in its conclusions, The Enigma of Diversity reveals the true cost of the public embrace of diversity: the taming of demands for racial justice.

Author : Lee Ann Fujii
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801457371

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Killing Neighbors by Lee Ann Fujii Pdf

In the horrific events of the mid-1990s in Rwanda, tens of thousands of Hutu killed their Tutsi friends, neighbors, even family members. That ghastly violence has overshadowed a fact almost as noteworthy: that hundreds of thousands of Hutu killed no one. In a transformative revisiting of the motives behind and specific contexts surrounding the Rwandan genocide, Lee Ann Fujii focuses on individual actions rather than sweeping categories. Fujii argues that ethnic hatred and fear do not satisfactorily explain the mobilization of Rwandans one against another. Fujii's extensive interviews in Rwandan prisons and two rural communities form the basis for her claim that mass participation in the genocide was not the result of ethnic antagonisms. Rather, the social context of action was critical. Strong group dynamics and established local ties shaped patterns of recruitment for and participation in the genocide. This web of social interactions bound people to power holders and killing groups. People joined and continued to participate in the genocide over time, Fujii shows, because killing in large groups conferred identity on those who acted destructively. The perpetrators of the genocide produced new groups centered on destroying prior bonds by killing kith and kin.

Author : Maija Ojala-Fulwood
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110526530

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Migration and Multi-ethnic Communities by Maija Ojala-Fulwood Pdf

This book aims to shed light on a global and complex phenomenon: migration. In order to grasp this vast and ambiguous issue, the book offers ten multi-layered case studies, each focussing on one aspect of migration. With this selection of articles, this collected volume builds a bridge between the past and the present and highlight the many sides of migration. The chapters will demonstrate how the questions of controlled migration, movement of labour, improvement of one’s life, and interaction of people of different origin have puzzled us in the course of the last five hundred years.

Author : Stuart J. Kaufman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501702006

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Modern Hatreds by Stuart J. Kaufman Pdf

Ethnic conflict has been the driving force of wars all over the world, yet it remains an enigma. What is it about ethnicity that breaks countries apart and drives people to acts of savage violence against their lifelong neighbors? Stuart Kaufman rejects the notion of permanent "ancient hatreds" as the answer. Dissatisfied as well with a purely rationalist explanation, he finds the roots of ethnic violence in myths and symbols, the stories ethnic groups tell about who they are. Ethnic wars, Kaufman argues, result from the politics of these myths and symbols—appeals to flags and faded glories that aim to stir emotions rather than to address interests. Popular hostility based on these myths impels groups to follow extremist leaders invoking such emotion-laden ethnic symbols. If ethnic domination becomes their goal, ethnic war is the likely result. Kaufman examines contemporary ethnic wars in the Caucasus and southeastern Europe. Drawing on information from a variety of sources, including visits to the regions and dozens of personal interviews, he demonstrates that diplomacy and economic incentives are not enough to prevent or end ethnic wars. The key to real conflict resolution is peacebuilding—the often-overlooked effort by nongovernmental organizations to change hostile attitudes at both the elite and the grassroots levels.

Author : Christopher A. Airriess
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442218574

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Contemporary Ethnic Geographies in America by Christopher A. Airriess Pdf

Ethnic diversity has marked the United States from its inception, and it is impossible to separate ethnicity from an understanding of the United States as a country and “Americans” as a people. Since the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, the United States has experienced watershed transformations in its social, cultural, and ethnic geographies. Considering the impact of these wide-ranging changes, this unique text examines the experiences of a range of ethnic groups in both historical and contemporary context. It begins by laying out a comprehensive conceptual framework that integrates immigration theory; globalization; transnational community formation; and urban, cultural, and economic geography. The contributors then present a rich set of case studies of the key Latin American, Asian American, and Middle Eastern communities comprising the vast majority of newer immigrants. Each case offers a brief historical overview of the group’s immigration experience and settlement patterns and discusses its contemporary socioeconomic dynamics. All these communities have transformed—and been transformed by—the places in which they have settled. Exploring these changing communities, places, and landscapes, this book offers a nuanced understanding of the evolution of America's contemporary ethnic geographies.

Author : Julie Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134822225

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Ethnicity and the American Short Story by Julie Brown Pdf

How do different ethnic groups approach the short story form? Do different groups develop culture-related themes? Do oral traditions within a particular culture shape the way in which written stories are told? Why does "the community" loom so large in ethnic stories? How do such traditional forms as African American slave narratives or the Chinese talk-story shape the modern short story? Which writers of color should be added to the canon? Why have some minority writers been ignored for such a long time? How does a person of color write for white publishers, editors, and readers? Each essay in this collection of original studies addresses these questions and other related concerns. It is common knowledge that most scholarly work on the short story has been on white writers: This collection is the first work to specifically focus on short story practice by ethnic minorities in America, ranging from African Americans to Native Americans, Chinese Americans to Hispanic Americans. The number of women writers discussed will be of particular interest to women studies and genre studies researchers, and the collections will be of vital interest to scholars working in American literature, narrative theory, and multicultural studies.

Author : Edmund Terence Gomez,Ralph Premdas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780415645065

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Affirmative Action, Ethnicity and Conflict by Edmund Terence Gomez,Ralph Premdas Pdf

In recent years a number of countries have introduced affirmative action programmes in order to put right historical injustices and economic inequalities involving ethnic communities. This book examines affirmative action programmes in a range of countries around the world. It discusses how such programmes came about and how they have been implemented, and examines their effectiveness. Throughout it explores how far affirmative action programmes reinforce ethnic identities and thereby contribute to division and conflict. The countries covered are India, the United States, South Africa, Northern Ireland, Brazil, Malaysia and Fiji.

Author : Victoria Hattam
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780226319230

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In the Shadow of Race by Victoria Hattam Pdf

Race in the United States has long been associated with heredity and inequality while ethnicity has been linked to language and culture. In the Shadow of Race recovers the history of this entrenched distinction and the divisive politics it engenders. Victoria Hattam locates the origins of ethnicity in the New York Zionist movement of the early 1900s. In a major revision of widely held assumptions, she argues that Jewish activists identified as ethnics not as a means of assimilating and becoming white, but rather as a way of defending immigrant difference as distinct from race—rooted in culture rather than body and blood. Eventually, Hattam shows, the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Census Bureau institutionalized this distinction by classifying Latinos as an ethnic group and not a race. But immigration and the resulting population shifts of the last half century have created a political opening for reimagining the relationship between immigration and race. How to do so is the question at hand. In the Shadow of Race concludes by examining the recent New York and Los Angeles elections and the 2006 immigrant rallies across the country to assess the possibilities of forging a more robust alliance between immigrants and African Americans. Such an alliance is needed, Hattam argues, to more effectively redress the persistent inequalities in American life.

Author : M. M. Agrawal
Publisher : Indus Publishing
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 8173870551

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Ethnicity, Culture, and Nationalism in North-east India by M. M. Agrawal Pdf

Papers presented at the Seminar on "Ethnicity, Culture, and Nationalism: Problems in the Context of North-East India", held in Sept. 1995 at the North Eastern Hill University.

Author : David Turton
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0851158692

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War and Ethnicity by David Turton Pdf

Includes statistics.

Author : John W. Frazier,Eugene Tettey-Fio
Publisher : Global Academic Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1586842641

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Race, Ethnicity, and Place in a Changing America by John W. Frazier,Eugene Tettey-Fio Pdf

Author : Elaine Pinderhughes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Ethnic attitudes
ISBN : 9780029253410

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Understanding Race, Ethnicity, and Power by Elaine Pinderhughes Pdf

foreword by Alvin Pouissant.505::Introduction--Culture, social interaction, and the human services--Understanding difference--Understanding ethnicity--Understanding race--Understanding power--Assessment--Treatment--Afterword: Beyond the cultural interface--Appendix: Teaching methods--Notes--References--Index.