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Global convulsions : race, ethnicity, and nationalism at the end of the twentieth century / edited by Winston A. Van Horne.

Title: Global convulsions : race, ethnicity, and nationalism at the end of the twentieth century / edited by Winston A. Van Horne.
Publication: Albany : State University of New York Press, c1997.

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Van Horne, Winston A.

Description

xx, 364 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Global Convulsions affords the reader an array of observations, data, and insights pertaining to both local and global events around the issues of race, ethnicity and nationalism at the end of the twentieth century. It scrutinizes closely the phenomenon of race in both historical and scientific contexts, and calls out a range of sociohistorical forces that have engendered ethnicity and nationalism. Through case studies, the contributors bring into sharp focus an array of ethnic cleavages, the difficulty of the struggle for national rights where language and religion draw a hard ethnic divide, and the actual corrosiveness of ethnicity and nationalism on the state.
The enduring value of Global Convulsions lies in its global reach and the patterns that it calls out. It makes plain that the state is no salvation in relation to national chauvinism, ethnic exclusivism, and/or racial paranoia. Indeed, the state, if not the cause, is often a consummative force perpetuating these phenomena. Still, according to the contributors to this volume, the state has much potential to transcend the divides of race, ethnicity, and nationalism. And so, in Global Convulsions does one discern the possibility of "us/them" becoming "us together."

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SUNY series, the social context of education

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SUNY series, social context of education.

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Contents

Foreword / Carol Edler Baumann -- Introduction / Winston A. Van Horne -- Race and Biology / Linda Vigilant -- The bell curve : a cross-century tradition concerning race and intellect / Winston A. Van Horne -- Race in history / Martin Bernal -- Concepts of nationalism in history / Brian E. Porter -- Cultural foundations of ethnonationalism : the role of religion / Maritin E. Marty -- Cultural nationalism and "internationalism" in contemporary Japan / Kosaku Yoshino -- Religion and identity in Northern Ireland / Marianne Elliott -- Israel and Palestinian statehood / Galia Golan -- Palestinian statehood / Muhammad Hallaj -- Whither the kurds? / George S. Harris --
(cont.) The relentless pursuit of the national state : reflections on Soviet and post-Soviet experiences / Mark R. Beissinger -- Nationality questions in teh Baltic : the Lithuanian example / Alfred Erich Senn -- Ethnonationalism and the disintegration of Yugoslavia / Robin Alison Remington -- China and the containment of ethnonationalism / David D. Buck -- Political ethnicity and state-building in Nigeria / Claude Ake -- Canada and the challenge of the Quebec independence movement / Marc V. Levine -- Epilogue / Winston A. Van Horne.

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^^^96015321^

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Harvard Library