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New Tribalisms: The Resurgence of Race and Ethnicity

English · Hardback

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For most of the twentieth century, social thinkers devoted their attention mainly to the issues of economic class. They generally dismissed the more primordial bonds of racial, ethnic, and national identities as irrational anachronisms that either communism or the liberal frameworks of democracy would dissolve.Today, communism is nearly dead and liberalism is on the wane. At the same time, older ethno-racial tribalisms, along with some newly invented ones, have shattered our illusions of a rationally manageable world. They find expression in chauvinistic nationalisms, multiculturalist ideologies, vicious civil wars, "ethnic cleansing" of whole regions, intensified racial and ethnic strife, a resurgence of prejudice, scapegoating, hate groups, and nativism, as well as new group-based challenges to the individualistic focus of Western liberalism.Bringing together prominent historians, sociologists, and political scientists, New Tribalisms examines early conceptions of racial and ethnic pluralism in the United States. The volume also confronts some of the causes, implications, and possible outcomes of resurgent tribalisms in the country and around the world.

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Authors Michael W. Hughey, Bryan Le Beau
Assisted by Michael Hughey (Editor)
Publisher New York Univ Pr
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.01.1998
 
EAN 9780814735404
ISBN 978-0-8147-3540-4
No. of pages 304
Dimensions 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
Weight 708 g
Series Main Trends of the Modern Worl
Subject Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology

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