商品簡介
Eight academics from the U.S. and UK contribute nine chapters arguing that ethnicity, used as a tool for both oppression and for liberation, plays an influential and controversial role in constructive state-building. The text draws attention to moral issues and pragmatic solutions so far undertaken in different countries, focusing on the construction and spread of the acceptable idea of national identity that refuses to accept the terms of negative ethnicity. The text includes discussion of ethnic conflict throughout the world, including post-Soviet Ukraine, the Black Panthers in the U.S., Nigeria, Liberia, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
