Product Description: With often tragic consequences, why does the Global North appear to be having a crisis of political will when it comes to welcoming refugees and migrants in to their countries? Is this connected to a global rise of xenophobia? Yet, amongst these international crises of conscience, we are witnessing a quiet humanitarian crisis that is one of cultural displacement...read more

Product Description: This specially commissioned volume of original essays, first published in 1990, provides a unique view of conflict, territorial behaviour and reconciliation between groups – social, racial, religious and nationalist – within states in both the developed and the developing worlds...read more

Product Description: This package contains the following products:9781451186116 Lippincott DocuCare, Six-Month Access9781451146660 Hinkle Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing, Two Volume Set, 13e9781469852744 Hinkle Lippincott CoursePoint for Brunner & Suddarth's Medical-Surgical Nursing, 13e (includes integrated access to the ebook and adaptive learning, powered by PrepU)  Lippincott CoursePoint is the only digital curriculum solution for nursing education...read more

This book attempts to explain the dynamics of community conflict, explores the relationship between cultural differences and political behaviour and examines the role of the state. It analyses the problems in many different societies. This book should be of interest to lecturers and introductory and intermediate students in human geography, political science, international studies and sociology.

6L-8 , Parillo, Vincent N., Understanding Race and Ethnic Relations /* Provides the reader with a brief introduction to the core theories, concepts and issues concerning race and ethnic relations in the United States. The book discusses the changing face of ethnicity, and dominant-minority relationships. Examines the most current Census Bureau projections to speculate what U.S. race, religion, and ethnicity might be like in the mid-21st century. Coverage of minority groups, as well as racial and ethnic groups in today's American society is provided. Prejudice and discrimination, as well as ethnocentrism, and the dynamics of inter-group relations, are also discussed. "The Dillingham Flaw" and the importance of viewing the foreign-born presence in the U.S. within a larger context - from a sociological perspective - in order to avoid inaccurate historical comparisons, are explained. Anyone interested in an introductory look into the current state of race and ethnic relationships in America.

Product Description: Embers of the Past is a powerful critique of historicism and modernity. Javier Sanjinés C. analyzes the conflict between the cultures and movements of indigenous peoples and attention to the modern nation-state in its contemporary Latin American manifestations...read more

Uses data from the Gallup Youth Survey and other sources to examine issues related to teenagers' race and ethnicity.

From blood feuds in Bosnia, to guerrilla fighting in Kurdistan, to nationalist movements in Quebec and Germany, this study examines how ethnic pride has been transformed into racial hatred, ethnic cleansing, and nationalistic extremism

Product Description: The paradox of federalism is about whether self-rule accommodates or exacerbates ethnic divisions. A federal arrangement which formally recognizes ethno-linguistic diversity to help manage divisions can also pave the way for eventual disintegration...read more

Product Description: Cities have always been dynamic social environments for visual and otherwise symbolic competition between the groups who live and work within them. In contemporary urban areas, all sorts of diversity are simultaneously increased and concentrated, chief amongst them in recent years being the ethnic and racial transformation produced by migration and the gentrification of once socially marginal areas of the city...read more

Product Description: In Educations in Ethnic Violence, Matthew Lange explores the effects education has on ethnic violence. Lange contradicts the widely-held belief that education promotes peace and tolerance. Rather, Lange finds that education commonly contributes to aggression, especially in environments with ethnic divisions, limited resources, and ineffective political institutions...read more

Product Description: This volume provides the first in-depth examination of the impact of the key sociological issues faced by the new Obama Administration and explores conventional topics on race and ethnic relations as well as delving into new areas of intellectual inquiry regarding the changing scope of race relations in a global context...read more

Investigates views on race and ethnicity, culture, and related policy issues, and challenges myths about the economics of race, race and mental ability, slavery, and multiculturalism in contemporary America--and around the world throughout history