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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450767103321

Titolo

Race and nation : ethnic systems in the modern world / / edited by Paul Spickard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-135-93060-0

1-280-10809-6

0-203-99793-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (407 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SpickardPaul R. <1950->

Disciplina

305.8

Soggetti

Ethnicity

Race awareness

Group identity

Nationalism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-382) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Race and Nation, Identity and Power; 1 Guilty Pleasures; 2 Mestizaje and the "Ethnicization" of Race in Latin America; 3 Creating a Racial Paradise; 4 White into Black; 5 Memories of Japanese Identity and Racial Hierarchy; 6 Ethnicity and Power in North Africa; 7 Racial Frontiers in Jamaica's Nonracial Nationhood; 8 Between Subjects and Citizens; 9 On Becoming German; 10 Reinventing the Nation; 11 Metaphors of Race and Discourse of Nation; 12 The Fragmented Nation; 13 Becoming Cambodian: Ethnicity and the Vietnamese

14 A Race Apart?15 Race and Ethnicity in South Africa: Ideology; 16 Eritrea's Identity as a Cultural Crossroads; 17 The Problem of the Color-Blind; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Race and Nation is the first book to rigorously compare the various racial and ethnic systems that have developed around the world. The contributors have honed their research and expertise to produce definitive questions in the field, and these