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Ethnicity in the Americas.
Title:
Ethnicity in the Americas.
Author:
Henry, Frances.
ISBN:
9783110803501
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (468 pages)
Series:
World Anthropology
Contents:
General Editor's Preface -- Introduction -- Ethnicity as a Cultural System: An Introductory Essay -- SECTION ONE: ETHNICITY IN CANADA -- Ethnic Relations and Ethnic Policies in Canadian Society -- Language, Ethnicity, and the Problem of Identity in a Canadian Metropolis -- The Changing Political Consciousness of Nova Scotia Blacks and the Influence of Africville -- American Molokans and Canadian Dukhobors: Economic Position and Ethnic Identity -- The Chinese Community in Canada Before 1947 and Some Recent Developments -- SECTION TWO: ETHNICITY IN THE CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICA -- Societal Segmentation and Jewish Ethnicity: Ethnographic Illustrations from Latin America and the Caribbean -- Politics in an Artificial Society: The Case of Bermuda -- The Role of Factionalism in Political Encapsulation: East Indian Villagers in Guyana -- The Social Adjustment of Returned Migrants to Jamaica -- Remnants of All Nations: Rastafarian Attitudes to Race and Nationality -- The Repairer of the Breach: Reverend Claudius Henry and Jamaican Society -- The Fiesta of the Indian in Quibdó, Colombia -- SECTION THREE: ETHNICITY IN THE UNITED STATES -- West Indian Radicalism in America: An Assessment of Ideologies -- Humanism in Black Culture -- Survival as a Way of Life: Some Adaptive Mechanisms Contributing Toward the Perpetuation of Afro-American Culture -- The Resurgence of Ethnicity Among American Indians: Some Comments on the Occupation of Wounded Knee -- Two Views of Ethnicity -- SECTION FOUR: DISCUSSION AND COMMENTARY -- Some Comments on Ethnicity in Canada -- Some Comments on Race and Ethnicity in the Caribbean -- Some Comments on the Anthropology of Ethnicity in the United States -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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