340 Pages
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Routledge
340 Pages
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Routledge
331 Pages
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Routledge
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Official statistics about ethnicity in advanced societies are no better than those in less developed countries. An open industrial society is inherently fluid, and it is as hard to interpret social class and ethnic groups there as in a nearly static community. In consequence, the collection and interpretation of ethnic statistics is frequently a battleground where the groups being counted contest... Read more
1: Toward the End of Ethnicity?; 2: Concepts of Ethnicity; 3: American Politics and the Measurement of Ethnicity; 4: Identification of Americans of European Descent; 5: Differentiation among Blacks; 6: Who Is an American Indian?; 7: The Creation of Hispanics; 8: Americans of Asian Stocks; 9: Hawaii; 10: Some European Nations and Subnations; 11: A Comparison of American Blacks and Belgian Flemings; 12: Ethnic Relations in the Netherlands; 13: Two Case Studies: Japan and Switzerland; 14: Who Is a Jew?; 15: Ethnicity in the New Nations of the Post-Colonial World; 16: The Conglomeration That Is India; 17: Conclusions
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William Petersen
