Ethnic and Racial Minorities in Advanced Industrial Democraci... - 9780313272592

Jim Walsh

Ethnic and Racial Minorities in Advanced Industrial DemocraciesAuthor(s): Luis R. Fraga, Anthony M. Messina, Laurie Rhodebeck, Frederic D. Wright\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Praeger Publishers Inc\nISBN-13: 9780313272592, 978-0313272592\nSynopsis\nThis collection of essays breaks new ground in the comparative study of ethnic and racial minorities by showing that there is a common ground shared by those in advanced industrial democracies that differentiates them from Third World and communist countries. The study offers a unique synthesis of diverse views by those who have focused on long-established or ethnoregional minorities and those who have studied recent immigrant populations. The analysis of ethnic tolerance, political factors, and conflict resolution considers why ethnic and racial conflict and disadvantage endure, pointing to ways that societies are organized economically and politically and linked into the international p.