The Ethnic Enigma: The Salience of Ethnicity for European-origin Groups, Volume 10Peter Kivisto Balch Institute Press, 1989 - 183 pages This collection seeks to advance understanding of the shifting character and salience of ethnicity by abandoning the debate between the assimilationist and the cultural pluralist. The case studies presented define culture as a flexible tool, ethnicity as a complex and variable phenomenon, and social actors as knowledgeable agents who make their own history |
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
ItalianAmerican Ethnicity in the Main | 24 |
Mixed Ethnic Identities among Immigrant Clergy from | 47 |
The Attenuated Ethnicity of Contemporary Finnish | 67 |
The Croatian | 89 |
The Case | 114 |
The Case of the Swedish | 134 |
Communal Religious Life in a Dutch | 153 |
Notes on Contributors | 178 |
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