dominant ethnicity : from background to foreground / Ethnic cores and dominant ethnies / identity and changing status of former elite minorities : the contrasting cases of North Indian Muslims and American WASPs / Dominant ethnicity and dominant nationhood / decline of the WASP in the United States and Canada -- 'Pures laines' Quebecois : the concealed ethnicity of dominant majorities / concept of 'dominant ethnicity' in the case of France / strange death of Protestant Britain / Russians as a dominant ethnie / Citizenship, immigration and ethnic hegemony in Japan / Towards a theory of ethnocratic regimes : learning from the Judaization of Israel/Palestine / "Majority ethnic' claims and authoritarian nationalism : the case of Hindutva / dynamics of ethnic minority domination in Fiji