Product Description: Current Issues in Bilingualism focuses on the language situation in Israel -- a country where Hebrew and Arabic are official languages, English is an academic and political language, and Russian, Amharic, etc., are spoken by immigrants -- to illustrate concepts applicable in a broader scope...read more

Product Description: Conflicts between different racial, ethnic, national and other social groups are becoming more and more salient. One of the main sources of these internal conflicts is social and economic inequality, in particular the increasing disparities between majority and minority groups...read more

Product Description: For Oren Yiftachel, the notion of ethnocracy suggests a political regime that facilitates expansion and control by a dominant ethnicity in contested lands. It is neither democratic nor authoritarian, with rights and capabilities depending primarily on ethnic origin and geographic location...read more

Product Description: Educating Israel is a comparative ethnography of five Israeli schools that operate within a multicultural context. It gives an important glimpse of individuals and institutions who bravely operate as social and educational entrepreneurs and who strive to change Israeli Society...read more

A British-born Jewish woman captures the harsh realities of life for Israel's frequently oppressed and neglected indigenous Arab population, exploring the historical factors and modern-day political and cultural currents that have created the situation and calls for the ending of a divide caused by misunderstanding and prejudice. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: This book delves into Israeli society where internal divides have emerged from divergent value systems in a context of powerful globalization, immigrant–society behavior, and a sharp majority–minority division. A short but hectic experience, Jewish nationalism draws its vitality from reformulations of ancestral symbols which permeate the dynamics of the confrontations of the dominant culture and numerous parties, all contesting its exigencies...read more

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Product Description: Written by some of the most distinguished scholars in the field of ethnic relations, this volume examines the role of ethnicity in modern day society and the impact of government policy on ethnic relations. International in scope, the essays look at a number of different but interrelated issues--aging, identity, minority groups, and others--examining each from a multidisciplinary perspective...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)