The Future of Ethnicity, Race, and Nationality

This broad-visioned and insightful book examines the march toward global consolidation of our many ethnic, racial, and nationality groups. About 100,000 years ago the dispersion of what was then a homogenous human population from its point of origin in Eastern Africa began. This was slowly followed by the emergence of ethnic and racial differences among the then separated human populations. The Agricultural Revolution, 10,000 years ago, began the long process of re-establishing contact and eventually consolidating the human species once again, but this time globally.

Wallace contends that consolidation will contribute greatly to the survival of humankind by reducing the deadly threats humans pose to each other. He also argues that ethnic, racial and nationality consolidation does not imply cultural homogeneity; diversity based on interest, vocation, and other factors will serve as even more fertile replacements. The book is expertly researched.

List of contents

Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Grand Cycle
History and Its Societal Engines
Contact
Competition Strategies
What Next?
References
Index

About the author

WALTER L. WALLACE is Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. He is author of seven books, including A Weberian Theory of Human Society (1994) and Principles of Scientific Sociology (1983), as well as numerous articles and book chapters.

Product details

• Authors: Walter L. Wallace, Wallace Walter L.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.1997
• EAN: 9780275958312
• ISBN: 978-0-275-95831-2
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Social issues & processes, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Social and ethical issues, Population & demography, Population and Demography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, Race and Ethnicity