From here he raises the question of the centrality of ethnic difference: Does it matter? When does it matter? Is it as important as many have assumed? The answer is that its importance can only be understood within a wider context of the culturally and socially subversive consequences of late modernity and a triumphant capitalist world order. In this way, this book re-connects the discourse of ethnicity to a series of other discourses from which it has become detached.
Ethnicity will be an invaluable text for students of sociology, politics and international relations coming to the subject for the first time. It will also be enjoyed by the interested general reader, and its innovative and challenging approach will appeal to more advanced scholars of race and ethnicity.
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Ethnic and Racial Studies, July 2004
'A tour de force.'
The Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
'This book is an important contribution to the literature on ethnicity, and enlightening to students of nationalism.'
Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism
Preface.
Introduction.
Chapter 1: Ethnos: descent and culture communities.
Chapter 2: Discourses of Ethnicity in Three Settings: USA, UK, Malaysia.
Chapter 3: The Demise of Race: the emergence of `ethnic'.
Chapter 4: The Primordialism debate.
Chapter 5: Key points in the Ethnicity literature.
Chapter 6: Migration, Ethnicity and Mobilisation.
Chapter 7: Conditions of Ethnicity: Global Economy and precarious states.
Chapter 8: States, nations and the ethnic majority: a problem of modernity.
Chapter 9: Ethnicity and Modernity: General Conclusions.
Bibliography.
Index
