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1. Right-wing extremism as a social movement / Bert Klandermans and Nonna Mayer -- 2. Links with the past / Bert Klandermans and Nonna Mayer -- 3. Context, alliances and conflict / Bert Klandermans and Nonna Mayer -- 4. Political demand and supply / Bert Klandermans and Nonna Mayer -- 5. Writing life-histories : interviewing extreme right-wing activists / Team Members -- 6. Italy : the offspring of fascism / Patrizia Milesi, Antonello Chirumbolo and Patrizia Catellani -- 7. France : a two-centuries-old galaxy / Valerie Lafont -- 8. Extreme right-wing activism in the Flemish part of Belgium : manifestation of racism or nationalism? / Hans De Witte -- 9. 'Doing it for Germany' : a study of Die Republikaner and Junge Freiheit / Ludger Klein and Bernd Simon -- 10. The Netherlands : stigmatized outsiders / Annette Linden and Bert Klandermans -- 11. One root, different branches : identity, injustice and schism / Patrizia Catellani, Patrizia Milesi and Alberto Crescentini -- 12. Identity in German right-wing extremism : levels, functions and processes / Ludger Klein and Bernd Simon -- 13. Do right and left-wing extremists have anything in common? / Antonio Chirumbolo, Nonna Mayer and Hans De Witte -- 14. Through the magnifying glass : the world of extreme right activists / Bert Klandermans and Nonna Mayer.

Long praised for its accuracy, readability, and insight, the Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs offers a synoptic appraisal of the year's developments in Canadian politics. The first year of the new millennium saw a new conservative federal party born with the union of the Reform Party and disaffected federal Progressive Conservatives. Led by Stockwell Day, the Canadian Alliance was defeated by Jean Chrétien's Liberals in the subsequent federal election. A second RCMP investigation into questionable job-creation grants in Chrétien's home riding, however, hurt the Prime Minister's reputation. The Liberals' new cigarette-packaging requirements, featuring gruesome tobacco-related images meant to discourage smoking, were challenged by tobacco companies. As well, the issue of police racism was brought to the fore when two Saskatoon police officers were suspended over allegations they abandoned a Native man on a cold winter night without a coat. Additionally, Ontario's chief coroner announced an investigation into the deaths of nine people following an outbreak of E. Coli in Walkerton. The Canadian Annual Review is unique in its collection and presentation of the year in politics. The combination of the calendar and the text offers a superb, easy-access reference source for political events, both federal and provincial.

Front Cover -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Section One: Theory -- The Historical Background -- English-Canadian Opposition to Non-British Immigration -- Racism in Early Canada -- Immigration and Canadian Anti-Semitism -- The Geneva Convention -- Canada's Immigration -- Ethnicity and Social Class -- Immigration Policy in the Late 1960s -- Social Adjustment of Immigrants to Canada -- Multiculturalism -- Aboriginal People and the Meech Lake Accord -- The Ping-Pong Ethnic Politics of Contemporary Quebec -- The Tolerant Society Versus the Accepting Society -- The Properties of Culture and the Possession of Identity -- Ethnicity and Social Class Thirty Years after the Vertical Mosaic -- Belonging in a Multicultural Context -- Residential Patterns in Cities -- The Social Construction of Immigrants -- Immigration and Demographic Structures -- Managing Immigrant Social Transformations -- The Illusion of Multiculturalism -- Immigration Policy -- Section Two: Experience -- The Child Eventually Grows Up -- From The Sacrifice -- A Class of New Canadians -- Road Building by Pick Axe -- Griff! -- Swimming Lessons -- On the Eve of Uncertain Tomorrows -- A Garden of Her Own -- Jacob -- From Diamond Grill -- On Social Suffering: Fatima's Story -- Section Three: Documents and Tables -- Ethnic Origin of the Canadian Population -- Federal Multicultural Policy -- Canadian Multiculturalism Act -- Skilled Worker Self-Assessment -- Copyright Acknowledgements -- Back Cover.

"This book presents a series of insightful discussions centered around the concept of identity as the key to understanding how racial minorities define reality, experience changes in racial consciousness, and perceive themselves and the world around them. This volume brings together many influential thinkers, writers, scholars, and researchers who tell a story that is deeply embedded in American society and still unfolding. The chapters are concise, well written, and presented in a sequence that captures the power and vision of Clark's testimony, rationale, methodology, and subsequent discoveries, which have altered the landscape of psychology. This volume is a must read for laypeople, students and professionals from a range of disciplines including psychology, social work, law, theology, ethics, sociology, and American history who will be impressed by the power and scope of the deeply probing analyses. This volume examines the continuing reality of racism but takes us beyond conceptions of "damage" to illuminate the strengths and resilience of African American culture. In a fitting tribute to Kenneth B. Clark, the contributors treat the cultural and historical context of racial identity as essential for a psychological analysis"--Jacket. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved)

Determined to be a U.S. Marine Corps officer, Bruce Yamashita enrolled in Officer Candidate School, where he was the target of persistent racial harassment by officers and staff. After enduring nine weeks of emotional and physical abuse, Yamashita was "disenrolled" in April 1989--kicked out of the Marine Corps because of the color of his skin. Fighting Tradition is Yamashita's own story of his courageous struggle to expose a pattern of racial discrimination against minorities that has existed at various levels of the Corps. With the support of a broad coalition of community and civil rights organizations, the Hawaii-born law school graduate fought a five-year-long legal, political, and media battle against the military establishment that ended in his commissioning as a captain and the revision of Marine Corps policies and procedures. Fighting Tradition not only is a moving story of personal sacrifice and vision, but contributes also both directly and indirectly to our understanding of the complexities of institutional racism in a politically conservative, demographically shifting society. It is a unique window into the dynamics of race, government, and the law and a stirring reminder of the importance of political mobilization by the individual to achieve justice

Some African cultural concepts / S. Biko -- Are there cultural universals? / K. Wiredu -- Ubuntu culture and participatory management / E.D. Prinsloo -- What is African philosophy? / D.N. Kaphagawani -- Sage philosophy / H.O. Oruku -- Ethnophilosophy and its critics / K.A. Appiah -- Ènìyàn: the Yoruba concept of a person / S. Ghadegesin -- African conceptions of personhood and intellectual identities / D.N. Kaphagawani -- The concept of cause in African thought / G.S. Sogolo -- On decolonizing African religions / K. Wiredu -- Logic and rationality / G.S. Sogolo -- The concept of truth in the Akan language / K. Wiredu -- Themes in a Chewa epistemology / D.N. Kaphagawani -- Old Gods, new worlds / K.A. Appiah -- Individuality, community, and the moral order / S. Ghadegesin -- The moral foundations of an African culture / K. Wiredu -- Person and community in African thought / K. Gyekye -- The definition of Black consciousness / S. Biko -- Outlawing racism in philosophy: on race and philosophy / M.P. More -- Democracy and consensus in African traditional politics: a plea for a non-party polity / K. Wiredu -- Traditional African aesthetics: a philosophical perspective / I.C. Onyewuenyi -- Morality, art, and African philosophy: a response to Wiredu / P. English & N. Steele-Hamme -- Is primitive art "art"? / G. Blocker -- On the distinction between modern and traditional African aesthetics / G. Blocker -- Negritude and African socialism / L.S. Senghor

Enlightenment writers, revolutionaries, and even Napoleon discussed and wrote about France's tiny Jewish population at great length. Why was there so much thinking about Jews when they were a minority of less than one percent and had little economic and virtually no political power? In this unusually wide-ranging study of representations of Jews in eighteenth-century France--both by Gentiles and Jews themselves--Ronald Schechteroffers fresh perspectives on the Enlightenment and French Revolution, on Jewish history, and on the nature of racism and intolerance. Informed by the latest historical scholarship and by the insights of cultural theory, Obstinate Hebrews is a fascinating tale of cultural appropriation cast in the light of modern society's preoccupation with the "other." Schechter argues that the French paid attention to the Jews because thinking about the Jews helped them reflect on general issues of the day. These included the role of tradition in religion, the perfectibility of human nature, national identity, and the nature of citizenship. In a conclusion comparing and contrasting the "Jewish question" in France with discourses about women, blacks, and Native Americans, Schechter provocatively widens his inquiry, calling for a more historically precise approach to these important questions of difference

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- PART I: INTRODUCTION -- 1 The Study of National Identity -- PART II: DIMENSIONS OF NATIONAL IDENTITY -- 2 Interpretations of National Identity -- 3 Theories of National Personality Revisited: Anglo-American Models and French Conceptions -- 4 National Identity and Modernity -- PART III: SYMBOLIZING THE NATION -- 5 Forging the Authentic Nation: Alpine Landscape and Swiss National Identity -- 6 Folk Culture and the Construction of European National Identities between the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- 7 The Shaping of a Nation: Catalan History and Historicity in Post-Franco Spain -- PART IV: TEACHING NATIONAL IDENTITY -- 8 Recreating the French Nation: The Teaching of History at the École Libre des Sciences Politiques at the end of the Nineteenth Century -- 9 National Identity Construction and the Teachers' Unions of the Germanys and Japan, 1945-1955 -- 10 Hindu Nationalism and the Social Welfare Strategy -- PART V: DISRUPTED NATIONAL IDENTITIES -- 11 Nationalism and the Politics of National Identities in Latin America: Gender, Power and Racism -- 12 The Difficult Stabilization of Turkish National Identity -- 13 Between Mimesis and Rebellion: The Vicissitudes of Romanian Nationalism -- PART VI: CONCLUSION -- 14 Culture and National Identity

"Imperialism as we knew it may be no more, but Empire is alive and well. It is, as Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri demonstrate in this bold work, the new political order of globalization. Their book shows how this emerging Empire is fundamentally different from the imperialism of European dominance and capitalist expansion in previous eras. Rather, Today's Empire draws on elements of U.S. constitutionalism, with its tradition of hybrid identities and expanding frontiers." "Empire identifies a radical shift in concepts that form the philosophical basis of modern politics, concepts such as sovereignty, nation, and people. Hardt and Negri link this philosophical transformation to cultural and economic changes in postmodern society - to new forms of racism, new conceptions of identity and difference, new networks of communication and control, and new paths of migration. They also show how the power of transnational corporations and the increasing predominance of postindustrial forms of labor and production help to define the new imperial global order." "More than analysis, Empire is also work of political philosophy, a new Communist Manifesto. Looking beyond the regimes of exploitation and control that characterize today's world order, it seeks an alternative political paradigm - the basis for a truly democratic global society."--Jacket

At the turn of the century, the United States is on the verge of losing its vote in the General Assembly for non-payment of its arrears. There are eerie parallels between the domestic debate over the United Nations in 1999 and the struggles over the League of Nations in 1919. Why, many ask, are Americans the first to create international organizations and the first to abandon them? What is it about the American political culture that breeds both the most ardent supporters and the most vocal detractors of international organization? And why can't they find any common ground? In seeking to uncover the roots of American ambivalence toward international organization, this political history presents the first major analysis of U.S. attitudes toward both the United Nations and the League of Nations. It traces eight themes that have resurfaced again and again in congressional and public debates over the course of this century: exceptionalism, sovereignty, nativism and racism, unilateralism, security, commitments, reform, and burden-sharing. It assesses recent domestic political trends and calls for the development of two interactive political compacts--one domestic and one international--to place U.S.-UN relations on a new footing. A Century Foundation Book.

Since the 1960s the relationship between Blacks and Jews has been a contentious one. While others have attempted to explain or repair the break-up of the Jewish alliance on civil rights, Seth Forman here sets out to determine what Jewish thinking on the subject of Black Americans reveals about Jewish identity in the U.S. Why did American Jews get involved in Black causes in the first place? What did they have to gain from it? And what does that tell us about American Jews? In an extremely provocative analysis, Forman argues that the commitment of American Jews to liberalism, and their historic definition of themselves as victims, has caused them to behave in ways that were defined as good for Blacks, but which in essence were contrary to Jewish interests. They have not been able to dissociate their needs--religious, spiritual, communal, political--from those of African Americans, and have therefore acted in ways which have threatened their own cultural vitality. Avoiding the focus on Black victimization and white racism that often infuses work on Blacks and Jews, Forman emphasizes the complexities inherent in one distinct white ethnic group's involvement in America's racial dilemma.

Ukrainian--reconstituting a language / Alexander Krouglov -- "Stubborn as a mule calls for a dialectical presentation" : on undoing and redoing corpus planning in Hungary / Miklós Kontra -- Linguistic consequences of the Sandanista revolution and its aftermath in Nicaragua / John M. Lipski -- Undoing some effects of the Cultural Revolution : Chinese address forms / S.M. Lee-Wong -- The reconvergence of German after reunification and its limits / Michael Clyne -- The reconvergence of Vietnamese / Nguyen Xuan Thu -- Undoing a "unified language" : Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian / Radoslav Katičić -- Reconvergence of Moldavian towards Romanian / Marcu Gabinschi -- The fate of Samnorsk : a social dialect experiment in language planning / Ernst Håkon Jahr -- Diets, nederlands, nederduits, hollands, vlaams, belgisch-nederlands / Kas Deprez -- From Pilipino to Filipino-1 to Filipino-2 : unmaking and remaking a national language / Andrew Gonzalez -- The undoing of language planning from the vantage of cultural history : two twentieth century Yiddish examples / Rakhmiel Peltz -- The Turkish language reform forced into stagnation / Hendrik Boeschoten -- Influence of the Middle East peace process on the Hebrew language / Ran HaCohen -- The impact of the peace process in the Middle East on Arabic / Hassan R.S. Abd-el-Jawad and Fawwaz Al-Abed Al-Haq -- Eradicating racism in language : Afrikaans / D.J. van Schalkwyk -- Epilogue / Michael Clyne

Caste, class and slavery : the taxonomic problem / Edmund Leach -- Characterization of caste and class systems discussion social class -- Caste : a phenomenon of social structure or an aspect of Indian culture? / Louis Dumont -- Place of comparison in the study of caste systems discussion -- Stratification, pluralism and interaction : a comparative analysis of caste / Gerald D. Berreman -- Analogues and homologues of caste systems discussion cross-cultural aspects -- Caste in India : its essential pattern of socio-cultural integration / Surajit Sinha -- The historical approach to caste discussion -- The pariah caste in Japan : history and present self-image / Hiroshi Wagatsuma -- Pariah castes compared -- Slavery in classical antiquity / Keith Hopkins -- Classical and American slavery compared / Slavery and its aftermath in the Western Hemisphere / Stanley M. Elkins -- Attitudes to slavery in the New World -- Racism in Europe / L. Poliakov -- Positive functions of minority groups -- The myth of the demonic conspiracy of Jews in medieval and modern Europe / Norman Cohn -- Stereotyped images of despised groups -- Caste and race in the psychodynamics of acculturation / P.H.M. Raveau -- Symbolic expression of racial tension -- Psychology of purity and pollution as related to social self-identity and caste / George De Vos -- Status anxiety and "guilt" in caste and modern societies -- A comparative approach to caste and race.

In this review, we integrate three bodies of scholarship—education stratification research, political-historical sociology of higher education, and sociological theories of race and racism—to understand the production of "separate and unequal" postsecondary experiences for racially marginalized college students in the United States. We argue that the US postsecondary system is plural, heterogeneous, and stratified partly as a result of hundreds of years of contested efforts to deploy higher education in the service of white supremacy and capital accumulation. Organizational stratification of higher education along racial lines leads to horizontal stratification in individual experiences within the same level of schooling, and even within the same university. We review literature on racialized sorting between schools, which channels racially marginalized students to different parts of the postsecondary system relative to their racially advantaged peers. We also describe stratification within schools, as students are tracked, often by race, into divergent academic and social pathways internal to a single university. Both types of sorting have racial consequences for students' career trajectories, economic security, and well-being. Finally, we detail recent efforts to challenge horizontal stratification, responses to those efforts, and avenues for future research.

History education holds strong potential for students to examine how racism and other intersecting forms of oppression embedded within U.S. institutions have and still impact today's social fabric. When rooted in Martell and Stevens' "thinking like an activist" framework, history education provides opportunities for preservice teachers (PSTs) to see, understand, and disrupt the dominant narrative. They can begin to reimagine their roles as future leaders in the classroom and beyond to ensure that all students thrive and not just survive. Thus, for this qualitative study, we engaged our PST in a book study of A Different Mirror for Young People: A History for Multicultural America. Through intentional content and pedagogical choices, we investigated the question, " How do preservice teachers make sense of history using the 'thinking like an activist' framework?" Findings indicated how Takaki's different mirror, as a counternarrative centering the perspectives and experiences of historically marginalized groups, allowed PSTs 1) to unlearn oppressive structures (cultural preparation), 2) begin to develop a sociopolitical consciousness of systemic oppression, albeit through an outsider's perspective (critical analysis), and 3) to analyze how collective action in the past enacted change–although through an already, but not yet, understanding of their role in social change in the present (collective action).