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Proponents of primordialism, ethnosymbolism, and modernism, the three most influential perspectives in the literature, have argued extensively about the content and origin of nationalism.
The study of nationalism has largely been shaped by political science, sociology and history, and has focused on the conditions under which nationalism emerges. National literature became not merely an expression of the nation's character but also evidence of the nation's merit and even legitimacy. Type. Chapter. Information.
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The scholarship on ethnicity, race, and na-tionalism has become unsurveyably vast. Nu-merous articles in the various social science Annual Reviews have addressed particular themes, problems, and strands of research in this domain.1 Clearly, any review must be ruth-lessly selective. I focus on two trends of the past two decades (though both have ...
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Feb 22, 2017 · 1891-1900. “Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro,” by Frederick Hoffman (1896) Better covered than the Plessy v. Ferguson decision that year, “Race Traits” catapulted this ...
Historical Foundations of Race. The term “race,” used infrequently before the 1500s, was used to identify groups of people with a kinship or group connection. The modern-day use of the term “race” is a human invention. The world got along without race for the overwhelming majority of its history.
Ethnic studies, in the United States, is the interdisciplinary study of difference—chiefly race, ethnicity, and nation, but also sexuality, gender, and other such markings—and power, as expressed by the state, by civil society, and by individuals. Its origin comes before the civil rights era, as early as the 1900s.
The question of identity is certainly one which has been at the heart of much of the literature in this field in the past three decades, both in terms of specific studies of racial and ethnic identity and conceptual debates about the role of identity in the construction of racial and ethnic boundaries. The preoccupation with identity can be ...
