Preventing Ethnic Conflict
Successful Cross-National Strategies
Preventing Ethnic Conflict
Successful Cross-National Strategies
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This renamed and revised paperback edition of Irwin Deutscher's Accommodating Diversity shares most of the book's original content but reframes the work with teachers and students in mind. Part social policy analysis and part intellectual autobiography, Preventing Ethnic Conflict mines the world's most troubling incidences of racial and ethnic conflict in order to find national policies that defuse the strains of cohabitation and encourage true reconciliation. Debunking the notion that conflict is inevitable when dominant and minority communities cohabit, Deutscher looks at five successful policies, from Swedish legislation dealing with immigrant education to the Chieftaincy act in Ghana, as he examines the possibilities for successful and harmonious intergroup relations. Deutscher concludes that the pursuit of a benign pluralist policy leads ultimately to assimilation, providing a political solution, which satisfies the champions of both diversity and unity. With introductory essays to each section written by Linda Lindsey that place the material within sociological theory, its problem solving focus, and provocative study questions, Preventing Ethnic Conflict is an ideal supplement for courses in race, ethnicity, and social problems.
Table of Contents
Part 2 The Problem
Chapter 3 Student and Teacher's Introduction to Part One
Chapter 4 The Beginning: Abe Lincoln in India and a Pair of Hungarians in Ottawa
Chapter 5 Democracy and Its Downside
Chapter 6 The Invention of Race and Ethnicity and Its Many Consequences
Chapter 7 Identities: Ethnic and Otherwise
Chapter 8 Ethnic Renewal: Italian Americans, Bosnian Muslims, and Native Americans
Chapter 9 Reports for the Daily Press: a Worldwide Network of Research Assistants
Part 10 Toward Solutions: From Time to Time and Place to Place
Chapter 11 Student and Teacher's Introduction to Part Two
Chapter 12 Backdrop and Precursors
Chapter 13 The Enclave Solution in Switzerland and Ghana
Chapter 14 The Immigrant Solution in Sweden, Canada, and Australia
Chapter 15 Sojourner Finns, Israelis, and Greeks and Also the Unfashionable Solution of Partition (India, No! Czechoslovakia, Yes!)
Chapter 16 Leave Vengeance to the Lord: One Tough but Grand Solution
Part 17 Over the Horizon
Chapter 18 Student and Teacher's Introduction to Part Three
Chapter 19 Beyond National Policies
Chapter 20 Assimilation and Pluralism: An Outmoded Distinction?
Chapter 21 The End: Values, Politics, and Assimilation
Product details
| Published | 21 Jan 2005 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 232 |
| ISBN | 9780739109939 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Dimensions | 228 x 154 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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