Race and Nation : Ethnic Systems in the Modern World

Race And Nation Is The First Book To Compare The Racial And Ethnic Systems That Have Developed Around The World. It Is The Creation Of Nineteen Scholars Who Are Experts On Locations As Far-flung As China, Jamaica, Eritrea, Brazil, Germany, Punjab, And South Africa. The Contributing Historians, Sociologists, Anthropologists, Political Scientists, And Scholars Of Literary And Cultural Studies Have Engaged In An Ongoing Conversation, Honing A Common Set Of Questions That Dig To The Heart Of Racial And Ethnic Groups And Systems. Guided By Those Questions, They Have Created The First Book That Explores The Similarities, Differences, And The Relationships Among The Ways That Race And Ethnicity Have Worked In The Modern World. In So Doing They Have Created A Model For How To Write World History That Is Detailed In Its Expertise, Yet Also Manages Broad Comparisons.--published Description. Guilty Pleasures : The Satisfactions Of Racial Thinking In Early-nineteenth-century California / Douglas Monroy -- Mestizaje And The Ethnicization Of Race In Latin America / Virginia Q. Tilley -- Creating A Racial Paradise : Citizenship And Sociology In Hawai'i / Lori Pierce -- White Into Black : Race And National Identity In Contemporary Brazil / G. Reginald Daniel -- Memories Of Japanese Identity And Racial Hierarchy / Miyuki Yonezawa -- Ethnicity And Power In North Africa : Tunisia, Algeria, And Morocco / Taoufik Djebali -- Racial Frontiers In Jamaica's Nonracial Nationhood / Violet Showers Johnson -- Between Subjects And Citizens : Algerians, Islam, And French National Identity During The Great War / Richard S. Fogarty -- On Becoming German : Politics Of Membership In Germany / Elisabeth Shäfer-wünsche -- Reinventing The Nation : Building A Bicultural Future From A Monocultural Past In Aotearoa/new Zealand / Cluny Macpherson -- Metaphors Of Race And Discourse Of Nation : Racial Theory And State Nationalism In The First Decades Of The Turkish Republic / Howard Eissenstat -- Fragmented Nation : Genealogy, Identity And Social Hierarchy In Turkmenistan / Adrienne Edgar -- Becoming Cambodian : Ethnicity And The Vietnamese In Kampuchea / Christine Su -- Race Apart? The Paradox Of Sikh Ethnicity And Nationalism / Darshan Tatla -- Race And Ethnicity In South Africa : Ideology And Experience / T. Dunbar Moodie -- Eritrea's Identity As A Cultural Crossroads / Tekle M. Woldemikael -- Problem Of The Color-blind : Notes On The Discourse On Race In Italy / Alessandro Portelli. Edited By Paul Spickard. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 365-382) And Index. Annotation Race and Nationis the first book to compare the racial and ethnic systems that have developed around the world. It is the creation of nineteen scholars who are experts on locations as far-flung as China, Jamaica, Eritrea, Brazil, Germany, Punjab, and South Africa. The contributing historians, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, and scholars of literary and cultural studies have engaged in an ongoing conversation, honing a common set of questions that dig to the heart of racial and ethnic groups and systems. Guided by those questions, they have created the first book that explores the similarities, differences, and the relationships among the ways that race and ethnicity have worked in the modern world. In so doing they have created a model for how to write world history that is detailed in its expertise, yet also manages broad comparisons Humanities Book Cover 1 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 8 Acknowledgments 10 About the Authors 12 Race and Nation, Identity and Power 16 1 Guilty Pleasures 48 2 Mestizaje and the “Ethnicization” of Race in Latin America 68 3 Creating a Racial Paradise 84 4 White into Black 102 5 Memories of Japanese Identity and Racial Hierarchy 130 6 Ethnicity and Power in North Africa 150 7 Racial Frontiers in Jamaica’s Nonracial Nationhood 170 8 Between Subjects and Citizens 186 9 On Becoming German 210 10 Reinventing the Nation 230 11 Metaphors of Race and Discourse of Nation 254 12 The Fragmented Nation 272 13 Becoming Cambodian: Ethnicity and the Vietnamese 288 14 A Race Apart? 314 15 Race and Ethnicity in South Africa: Ideology 334 16 Eritrea’s Identity as a Cultural Crossroads 352 17 The Problem of the Color-Blind 370 Bibliography 380 Index 398 Race and Nation is the first book to rigorously compare the various racial and ethnic systems that have developed around the world. The contributors have honed their research and expertise to produce definitive questions in the field, and these The old man and I sat in the dust of the bazaar, our backs against a whitewashed wall, hiding from the sun in what little shade we could find.