Ethnicity in the Americas / / ed. by Frances Henry.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: Aronson, Dan R.,; Aschenbrenner, Joyce,; Burnet, Jean,; Chevannes, A. Barrington,; Chow, W. S.,; Clairmont, Donald H.,; Dunn, Ethel,; Forsythe, Dennis,; Friedemann, Nina S. De,; Gold, G. L.,; Hannerz, Ulf,; Henry, Frances,; Holzberg, C. S.,; Magill, Dennis W.,; Mithun, J. S.,; Provinzano, James,; Richmond, Anthony H.,; Romalis, Coleman,; Ryan, Selwyn D.,; Silverman, Marilyn,; Talbert, Carol,; Taylor, Edward,; Yawney, C. D.,
• HerausgeberIn: Henry, Frances,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1976
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (456 p.) :; Num. figs. and Tabs.

Table of Contents

I-XII -- 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