Rethinking Ethnicity: Majority Groups and Dominant MinoritiesEric P. Kaufmann Routledge, 2004 M08 2 - 272 pages The impact of liberal globalization and multiculturalism means that nations are under pressure to transform their national identities from an ethnic to a civic mode. This has led, in many cases, to dominant ethnic decline, but also to its peripheral revival in the form of far right politics. At the same time, the growth of mass democracy and the decline of post-colonial and Cold War state unity in the developing world has opened the floodgates for assertions of ethnic dominance. This book investigates both tendencies and argues forcefully for the importance of dominant ethnicity in the contemporary world. |
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Conceptualising dominant ethnicity | 13 |
Dominant ethnicity in transition | 52 |
Dominant ethnicity resurgent | 138 |
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