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Preface to the First Edition | |
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Preface to the Second Edition | |
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First Edition Acknowledgements | |
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Second Edition Acknowledgements | |
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Introduction | |
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The ontological status of the term 'ethnicity' | |
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An example of groups and names | |
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Fixed categories and diffuse identities | |
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Do people act by reference to their ethnic identity? | |
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Ethnic cleansing or racial segregation? | |
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Ethnos: Descent and Culture Communities | |
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Shared references | |
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Stock, type, people, breed | |
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Nation | |
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Race | |
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The demise of race | |
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Culture and ethnicity are not the same | |
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Defining the core and the divergences | |
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Summary | |
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Multiple Discourses of Ethnicity: Differences by Country and Region | |
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The USA | |
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Immigration to the USA | |
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Changes of the late twentieth century | |
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Ethnicity and changing ideas of race | |
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Where have all the races gone? The case of the UK | |
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Discourse of races in postcolonial Malaysia | |
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Asia and Latin America | |
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Ethnic classification across the world | |
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Summary: ethnicity and nation in their place | |
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The Demise of Race: The Emergence of 'Ethnic' | |
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Ethnic group (ethnie) and nation | |
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The demise of race | |
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Scholarly, popular and political ideas | |
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Lloyd Warner American ethnic groups | |
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The scholarly tradition: Max Weber and ethnic groups | |
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Anthropology and social anthropology | |
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Real groups | |
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Summary | |
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The Primordialism Debate | |
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Primordialism | |
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'Primordial' as a sociological concept | |
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Edward Shils and primordial, personal, sacred and civil ties | |
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Clifford Geertz and the integrative revolution | |
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After Geertz | |
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Judith Nagata and mobilized identities | |
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Summary: primordial ethnic groups | |
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How Real are Groups? Political Ethnicity, Symbolic Ethnicity and Competition Theory | |
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Cultures and boundaries | |
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Competition theory | |
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Class as a complicating factor in ethnic competition analysis; ethnicity as a complicating factor in class analysis | |
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Critiques of groupism | |
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Summary | |
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Migration and Ethnicity | |
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Forced migrations | |
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Migrants and plural societies | |
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World migration | |
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Internal migrants | |
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Professional migrations | |
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Undocumented workers | |
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Migration, gender and family | |
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Questions of integration and citizenship | |
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The case of the USA: migration and ethnicity in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries | |
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America's growing Hispanic population | |
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Hispanics and Mexican Americans: social profiles | |
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Likely futures for new migrants and their families and for American ethnicities | |
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The renewed debate about the concept of assimilation | |
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Occupational structure: the hourglass labour market | |
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Summary: the opposing views | |
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Social Conditions of Ethnicity: Global Economy and Precarious States | |
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Theorizing the conditions of ethnic action | |
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Features of the contemporary world | |
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Postcolonial economic conditions | |
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William Julius Wilson and The disappearance of work | |
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Economic change and Hispanic migration into the USA | |
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Precarious, factionalized, democratizing states: unstable geopolitical conditions | |
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Ethnic conflict, violence, insecurity and the state | |
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Ethnicity and geopolitics | |
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Post-Soviet Russia | |
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Summary | |
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Ethnic Majorities and Nationalism in Europe: Globalization and Right-Wing Movements | |
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The nation | |
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Nation, class and resentment | |
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Nation and majority | |
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Class, welfare, the state and immigrants | |
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Right-wing movements in Europe | |
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Multiculturalism and identity politics | |
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Summary: reflections on nation, resentment and identity | |
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Ethnicity and the Modern World: General Conclusions | |
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A theory of ethnicity? | |
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Ethnicity as theory | |
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Sociology of ethnicity: identity and action in context | |
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Late capitalism and the modern social world | |
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The contradictions of late capitalist modernity | |
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Individualism | |
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Two worlds - the liberal and the authoritarian | |
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Four principal problematics | |
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Modernity and ethnicity | |
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Ethnicity in its place | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |