Product Description: Economist Sowell deftly refutes the key assumptions on which the Civil Rights Movement was erected, and probes fundamental racial issues such as affirmative action, busing, and women's issues, including the ERA. 3 cassettes.

Product Description: Creating Ethnicity raises the important question of `what is ethnic?' Using case studies from Canada, Zaire, Belgium and Bolivia, Roosens shows that ethnicity does not always stem from ancient tradition, but can be shaped, modified, recreated or even manufactured in modern society...read more

Product Description: First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: Provides a fresh look at the handling of tensions between people with different ethnic identities from many countries, and seeks out those methods which genuinely reduce conflict. Originally published in 1973 by Little, Brown and Company.

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Mixing theories of the everyday with a wide range of case studies, this book explains the 'character' of ethnicity, from being a political tool of exclusion, to a source of meaning and solidarity, and the relationship between culture, power and identity.

Ethnicity and nationalism are pervasive features of the contemporary world, but how far is ethnicity a result of cultural differences, and how much is it in fact dependent on the practical use of, and belief in, such differences? In this book, Thomas Hylland Eriksen demonstrates that far from being an immutable property of groups, ethnicity is a dynamic and shifting aspect of social relationships. Drawing on a wide range of classic and recent studies in anthropology and sociology, Eriksen examines the relationship between ethnicity, class, gender and nationhood, as well as current issues of racism, globalisation and multiculturalism. Influential theories are presented and critically compared in a lucid and comprehensive manner. A core text for all students of social anthropology and related subjects, Ethnicity and Nationalism has been a leading introduction to the field since its original publication in 1993. This new edition - expanded and thoroughly revised - is indispensable to anyone seriously interested in understanding ethnic phenomena. New chapters cover recent studies of migration, cultural creolisation, racism, gender and nationalism, and the dilemmas of multiculturalism. (view table of contents)

In this accessible student text, Eriksen critically examines the relationship between ethniciy, class, gender and nationhood, using a wide variety of examples.

Sixteen essays present theoretical exploration of modern ethnic identity, assertiveness, and conflict throughout the world and selective empirical studies of particluar ethnic groups in various nations and parts of the world (view table of contents)

The authors propose that the evolutionary past of humankind can be reconstructed by analyzing current gentic data

*Designed for introductory courses in Cultural Anthropology as well as sources in development and area studies courses. Modernization and ethnic conflict; the impact of development on the Orang Asli in Malaysia; Guarani agrofestry-1997 will kick-off this brand new cultural anthropology series with studies of the above three topics by leading figures in the field of anthropology. Sharply focused on key issues affecting indigenous and ethnic groups worldwide, this series of ethnographies builds on introductory material by going further in-depth and allowing students to explore, virtually first-hand, a particular issue and its impact on a culture. Part of the Cultural Survival Studies in Ethnicity and Change Series.