Research Catalog

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, ©1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

Van Horne, Winston A.

Description

xx, 364 pages : illustrations; 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."

Series Statement

SUNY series, the social context of education

Uniform Title

SUNY series, social context of education

Subject

• Race relations
• Racism
• Ethnicity
• Nationalism
• Ethnic groups
• Ethnicity
• ethnicity
• nationalism
• ethnic groups
• Ethnic groups
• Nationalism
• Race relations
• Racism
• Rassismus
• Ethnizität
• Nationalismus
• Ethnische Beziehungen
• Milwaukee <Wis., 1993>

Genre/Form

Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Race and biology -- The Bell Curve : a cross-century tradition concerning race and intellect -- Race in history -- Concepts of nationalism in history -- Cultural foundations of ethnonationalism : the role of religion -- Cultural nationalism and "internationalization" in contemporary Japan -- Religion and identity in Northern Ireland -- Israel and Palestinian statehood -- Palestinian statehood -- Whither the Kurds? -- The relentless pursuit of the national state : reflections on Soviet and post-Soviet experiences -- Nationality questions in the Baltic : the Lithuanian example --Ethnonationalism and the disintegration of Yuglosavia -- China and the containment of ethnonationalism -- Political ethnicity and state-building in Nigeria -- Canada and the challenge of the Quebec independence movement.

ISBN

• 0791432351
• 9780791432358
• 079143236X
• 9780791432365

LCCN

96015321

OCLC

• ocm34513827
• 34513827
• SCSB-8945740

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library