Rethinking Ethnicity: Majority Groups and Dominant Minorities

ISBN-13: 9780415315432 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 272 str.

Eric P. Kaufmann

Opis

How are the English in England, the Jews of Israel, the Baltic Russians and Gulf Arabs responding to the pressure of a global era? Are such groups in decline, or are they successfully negotiating or resisting the challenge of new global values? The impact of the forces of globalization and increased migration has meant that nations, mostly formed on the basis of a dominant ethnic group, are facing pressure to change their self-definitions from ethnic to civic criteria. Nations are encouraged to look to the future and to treasure cultural diversity, rather than their homogeneity and past, and to be open to foreign trade, immigration and cultural influences, leading to a growing gap between modern nations and dominant ethnic groups.

Recenzje

"Rethinking Ethnicity is a fascinating collection of studies of political status seeking and status reversal on the part of dominant or once-dominant ethnic groups. With its bountiful array of materials, it presents a panoramic picture of ethnic change and of efforts to thwart." - Donald L. Horowitz, Duke University

Spis treści

Part 1: Conceptualizing Dominant Ethnicity 1. Introduction Dominant Ethnicity: From background to foreground 2. Ethnic Cores and Dominant Ethnies Anthony 3. The Identity and Changing Status of Former Elite Minorities: The contrasting cases of north Indian muslims and American 'WASPs' 4. Dominant Ethnicity and Dominant Nationhood: With a focus on Switzerland, Mexico and Iraq Part 2: Dominant Ethnicity in Transition 5. The Decline of the 'WASP' in Canada and the United States 6. Pure Laine' Québecois in Quebec 7. The Concept of 'Dominant Ethnicity' in the Case of France 8. The Strange Death of Protestant Britain 9. Russians as a Dominant Ethnie Part 3: Dominant Ethnic Resurgence 10. Citizenship, Immigration and Ethnic Hegemony in Japan 11. Towards a Theory of Ethnocratic Regimes: Learning from the judaization of Israel/Palestine 12. 'Majority Ethnic' Claims and Authoritarian Nationalism: The case of Hindutva 13. The Dynamics of Ethnic Minority Domination in Fiji

O autorze

Eric P. Kaufmann is Lecturer in Politics and Sociology at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is also the author of The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America: The Decline of Dominant Ethnicity in the United States (Harvard University Press, 2004).