Ethnicity In Modern Africa

Author : Brian M. du Toit
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429726937
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethnicity In Modern Africa written by Brian M. du Toit and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifteen essays written for this volume reflect the increasing importance for social scientists of ethnic, rather than physical or tribal, criteria for classifying modern population groups. The authors—from South Africa, the United States, South West Africa (Namibia), Nigeria, and Scotland—cover most of Africa south of the Sahara. They consider the range from large national population groupings to small-scale societies attempting to maintain their social boundaries, and discuss such topics as emergent nationalism, ethnic divisiveness, social distance, voluntary association, and the role of women. The first section is concerned with particular communities, peoples, and ethnic groups, and treats traditional tribal groupings as well as communities delineated on phenotypic grounds. In the second section, the focus turns to modern situations of interaction; the two major themes discussed here are situational ethnicity and situational realignment. The third section deals with color, one of the physical criteria of ethnic identification; here the authors discuss the political and legal implications of a system based on color. The last essay reports on current changes in attitude and organization within the countries of white-ruled southern Africa.

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ISBN 13 : 9780429047947
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ETHNICITY IN MODERN AFRICA. written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bruce Berman
Publisher : James Currey Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780821415702
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethnicity & Democracy in Africa written by Bruce Berman and published by James Currey Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A useful collection for students as the interest in the politics of ethnicity continues.

Author : Bruce Berman
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821442678
Total Pages : 669 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethnicity and Democracy in Africa written by Bruce Berman and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-30 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The politics of identity and ethnicity will remain a fundamental characteristic of African modernity. For this reason, historians and anthropologists have joined political scientists in a discussion about the ways in which democracy can develop in multicultural societies. In Ethnicity and Democracy in Africa, the contributors address why ethnicity represents a political problem, how the problem manifests itself, and which institutional models offer ways of ameliorating the challenges that ethnicity poses to democratic nation-building.

Author : P. Yeros
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349271551
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethnicity and Nationalism in Africa written by P. Yeros and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnicity and Nationalism in Africa features a series of 'constructivist' contributions by leading scholars in the field of ethnicity and nationalism, and explores the differences among those who have come to be known as 'constructivists'. The contributors reflect upon ongoing methodological debates in ethnography, historiography, and political theory. They demonstrate the diversity of concepts and methods within constructivism, and assess the political implications of the concepts themselves. The debate between them is inter-disciplinary, critical and innovative, and should be of value to anyone interested in the study of ethnicity and nationalism.

Author : E Ike Udogu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351738437
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Issue of Political Ethnicity in Africa written by E Ike Udogu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2001. The central characteristics of political ethnicity and its dysfunctional attributes in African politics is vexing to Africa's policy makers. Moreover, as a conflictive ideology in national and international politics, many political actors would rather avoid it. In the past, nationalists have blamed ethnic chauvinists for fanning the embers of ethnicity, but today they realize they may have underestimated its prominence in African politics.

Author : Crawford Young
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethnicity and Politics in Africa written by Crawford Young and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Louise De La Gorgendière
Publisher : Centre of African Studies University of Edinburgh
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethnicity in Africa written by Louise De La Gorgendière and published by Centre of African Studies University of Edinburgh. This book was released on 1996 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lahra Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107035317
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Citizens in Africa written by Lahra Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a study of contemporary politics in Ethiopia through an empirical focus on language policy, citizenship, ethnic identity, and gender. It is unique in its focus not only on the political institutions of Ethiopia and the history of the country but in that it studies these subjects at the intersection of both modern and historical time periods. In particular, it argues that meaningful citizenship, which is much more than the legal state of being a citizen, is a process of citizens and the state negotiating the practice of citizenship. Therefore, it puts the citizen back at the forefront of the process of expanding citizenship, suggesting the ways that citizens support, resist, and affect state policy on political rights.

Author : Gwendolyn Midlo Hall
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807876860
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas written by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-11-05 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enslaved peoples were brought to the Americas from many places in Africa, but a large majority came from relatively few ethnic groups. Drawing on a wide range of materials in four languages as well as on her lifetime study of slave groups in the New World, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall explores the persistence of African ethnic identities among the enslaved over four hundred years of the Atlantic slave trade. Hall traces the linguistic, economic, and cultural ties shared by large numbers of enslaved Africans, showing that despite the fragmentation of the diaspora many ethnic groups retained enough cohesion to communicate and to transmit elements of their shared culture. Hall concludes that recognition of the survival and persistence of African ethnic identities can fundamentally reshape how people think about the emergence of identities among enslaved Africans and their descendants in the Americas, about the ways shared identity gave rise to resistance movements, and about the elements of common African ethnic traditions that influenced regional creole cultures throughout the Americas.