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Preface | |
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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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Beware: 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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Discourses of Ethnicity in Three Settings: The USA, the UK and Malaysia | |
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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 post-colonial Malaysia | |
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Ethnicity and nation in their place | |
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Summary: race, ethnicity and context | |
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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 and 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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Summary: primordial ethnic groups | |
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Key Points in the Ethnicity Literature | |
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Glazer and Moynihan: ethnicity, a new term, a new phenomenon? | |
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'Something new has appeared' | |
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Glazer and Moynihan in retrospect | |
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A critique of ethnicity | |
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BMP thirty-five years on | |
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Cultures and boundaries | |
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Culture | |
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Summary: culture, race and ethnicity--symbolic ethnicity, power and choice | |
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Migration, Ethnicity and Mobilization | |
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The story so far | |
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What is ethnicity, and how and when does it become important sociologically? | |
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Action and conditions of action | |
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Trends in world migration | |
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Migrants and plural societies | |
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Migrants and settlers | |
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Ethnicity, minority and majority | |
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The social and political organization of ethnicity | |
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Mobility and resistance | |
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Summary | |
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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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Post-colonial economic conditions | |
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W. J. Wilson and the disappearance of work | |
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Precarious states | |
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Ethnicity and geo-politics | |
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Post-Soviet Russia | |
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Summary | |
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States, Nations and the Ethnic Majority: A Problem of Modernity | |
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Modernity and the nation | |
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The idea of nation | |
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Nation and majority | |
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The discontents of modernity: two accounts | |
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Britain, ressentiment and the sociology of nationalism-racism fusions | |
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Racism, ethnicity and nation | |
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Conclusions | |
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Ethnicity and Modernity: General Conclusions | |
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A theory of ethnicity? | |
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Ethnicity as theory | |
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Sociology of ethnicity: a phase of the sociology of modernity | |
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Late capitalism and modernity | |
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The contradictions of late capitalist modernity | |
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Dissociation, exploitation-inequality: the politics of distribution and recognition | |
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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 | |