Myths Of Ethnicity And Nation

Author : Stephen Steinberg
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807041536
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ethnic Myth written by Stephen Steinberg and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2001-01-16 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You hold in your hand a dangerous book. Because it rejects as it clarifies most of the current wisdom on race, ethnicity, and immigration in the United States, The Ethnic Myth has the force of a scholarly bomb. --from the Introduction by Eric William Lott In this classic work, sociologist Stephen Steinberg rejects the prevailing view that cultural values and ethnic traits are the primary determinants of the economic destiny of racial and ethnic groups in America. He argues that locality, class conflict, selective migration, and other historical and economic factors play a far larger role not only in producing inequalities but in maintaining them as well, thus providing an insightful explanation into why some groups are successful in their pursuit of the American dream and others are not.

Author : Anthony D. Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781383018783
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myths and Memories of the Nation written by Anthony D. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work explores the roots of nationalism by examining the myths, symbols and memories of the nation through an ethno-symbolic approach. It reveals the power of the myth and memory to mobilize, define and shape people and their destinies.

Author : George Schopflin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136677240
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myths and Nationhood written by George Schopflin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myths are central to the way we live and how we define ourselves. In this pioneering book, a group of specialists--among them Anthony Smith, Norman Davies, Geoffrey Hosking and George Schopflin--look at the general and theoretical nature of myth on a universal basis and examine the specific myths of various nations. With nationhood and ethnicity at the centre of political attention, the book is timely in illuminating the deeper, underlying issues of nationalism that cause so much conflict throughout the world.

Author : Mark Moberg
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870499708
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myths of Ethnicity and Nation written by Mark Moberg and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, Mark Moberg examines the conflicts in Belize's ethnic and national identity by focusing on their effects and manifestations in the country's banana export industry.

Author : Patrick J. Geary
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691114811
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Myth of Nations written by Patrick J. Geary and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-02 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dismantling nationalist myths about how the nations of Europe were born, this text contrasts them with the actual history of Europe's transformation between the fourth and ninth centuries - the period of grand migrations that nationalists hold dear.

Author : Stephen Steinberg
Publisher : Boston : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ethnic Myth written by Stephen Steinberg and published by Boston : Beacon Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic work, sociologist Stephen Steinberg rejects the prevailing view that cultural values and ethnic traits are the primary determinants of the economic destiny of racial and ethnic groups in America. He argues that locality, class conflict, selective migration, and other historical and economic factors play a far larger role not only in producing inequalities but in maintaining them as well, thus providing an insightful explanation into why some groups are successful in their pursuit of the American dream and others are not. -- amazon.com.

Author : Ralph R. Premdas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethnic Identity in the Caribbean written by Ralph R. Premdas and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Wald Sussman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674745302
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Myth of Race written by Robert Wald Sussman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biological races do not exist—and never have. This view is shared by all scientists who study variation in human populations. Yet racial prejudice and intolerance based on the myth of race remain deeply ingrained in Western society. In his powerful examination of a persistent, false, and poisonous idea, Robert Sussman explores how race emerged as a social construct from early biblical justifications to the pseudoscientific studies of today. The Myth of Race traces the origins of modern racist ideology to the Spanish Inquisition, revealing how sixteenth-century theories of racial degeneration became a crucial justification for Western imperialism and slavery. In the nineteenth century, these theories fused with Darwinism to produce the highly influential and pernicious eugenics movement. Believing that traits from cranial shape to raw intelligence were immutable, eugenicists developed hierarchies that classified certain races, especially fair-skinned “Aryans,” as superior to others. These ideologues proposed programs of intelligence testing, selective breeding, and human sterilization—policies that fed straight into Nazi genocide. Sussman examines how opponents of eugenics, guided by the German-American anthropologist Franz Boas’s new, scientifically supported concept of culture, exposed fallacies in racist thinking. Although eugenics is now widely discredited, some groups and individuals today claim a new scientific basis for old racist assumptions. Pondering the continuing influence of racist research and thought, despite all evidence to the contrary, Sussman explains why—when it comes to race—too many people still mistake bigotry for science.

Author : Richard A. Davis
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Myth of Black Ethnicity written by Richard A. Davis and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1997-06-12 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1800s W.E.B. Dubois asked what it really means to be black in America. He raised the spectre of divided loyalties and the blurring of individuality that he called Double Consciousness. This volume offers an insight into this dilemma of identity by asking the seemingly rhetorical question, what does O.J. Simpson have in common with the participants in the Million Man March, the jury that set him free, the people who inexplicably cheered his acquittal, the prosecuting attorney, the black Muslim Louis Farrakhan, or with his own children? Each case involves cross-cutting currents of age, sex, religion, race, ethnicity, class and ideology. But what they share among themselves, and with the rest of the nation, is the firm conviction that they are black.

Author : Anthony D. Smith
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631161691
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ethnic Origins of Nations written by Anthony D. Smith and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1991-01-08 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an excellent, comprehensive account of the ways in which nations and nationhood have evolved over time. Successful in hardback, it is now available in paperback for a student audience.