Rethinking Ethnicity

Majority Groups and Dominant Minorities

• Author(s): Eric P. Kaufmann,
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Pages: 254
• ISBN_10: 0415315425
  ISBN_13: 9780415315425
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Philosophy / Political , Political Science / General , Political Science / Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General , Social Science / Minority Studies , Social Science / Sociology / General ,

Description:... The impact of liberal globalization and multiculturalism means that nations are under pressure to transform their national identities from an ethnic to a civic mode. This has led, in many cases, to dominant ethnic decline, but also to its peripheral revival in the form of far right politics. At the same time, the growth of mass democracy and the decline of post-colonial and Cold War state unity in the developing world has opened the floodgates for assertions of ethnic dominance. This book investigates both tendencies and argues forcefully for the importance of dominant ethnicity in the contemporary world.