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Author:   Paul Spickard
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.910kg
ISBN:  

9780415950022

ISBN 10:   0415950023
Pages:   406
Publication Date:   05 December 2004
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Race and Nation, Identity and Power: Thinking Comparatively about Ethnic Systems Paul Spickard Founding and Sustaining Myths 1. Guilty Pleasures: The Satisfactions of Racial Thinking in Early Nineteenth-Century California Douglas Monroy 2. Mestizaje and the Ethnicization of Race in Latin America Virginia Q. Tilley 3. Creating a Racial Paradise: Citizenship and Sociology in Hawaii Lori Pierce 4. White Into Black: Race and National Identity in Contemporary Brazil G. Reginald Daniel 5. Memories of Japanese Identity and Racial Hierarchy Miyuki Yonezawa Colonialisms and Their Legacies 6. Ethnicity and Power in North Africa (Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco) Taoufik Djebali 7. Racial Frontiers in Jamaica's Nonracial Nationhood Violet Showers Johnson 8. Between Subjects and Citizens: Algerians, Islam, and French National Identity during the Great War Richard S. Fogarty 9. On Becoming German: Politics of Membership in Germany 310 Elisabeth Schäfer-Wünsche Nation Making 10. Reinventing the Nation: Building a Bicultural Future from a Monocultural Past in Aotearoa/New Zealand Cluny Macpherson 11. Metaphors of Race and Discourse of Nation: Racial Theory and State Nationalism in the First Decades of the Turkish Republic Howard Eissenstat 12. The Fragmented Nation: Genealogy, Identity, and Social Hierarchy in Turkmenistan Adrienne Edgar 13. Becoming Cambodian: Ethnicity and the Vietnamese in Kampuchea Christine Su Boundaries Within 14. A Race Apart? The Paradox of Sikh Ethnicity and Nationalism Darshan Tatla 15. Race and Ethnicity in South Africa: Ideology and Experience T. Dunbar Moodie 16. Eritrea's Identity as a Cultural Crossroads Tekle Woldemikael 17. The Problem of the Color Blind: Notes on the Discourse on Race in Italy Alessandro Portelli

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Paul Spickard is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of, among other books, Racial Thinking in the United States and AGlobal History of Christians.

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