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Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference
Maurice Freedman,Fredrik Barth +1 more
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Bounded spaces in a ‘borderless world’: border studies, power and the anatomy of territory
TL;DR: The roles and future of bounded territories have become important themes in research as discussed by the authors and scholars have in particular theorized new forms of spatialities that have emerged along with the geopolitical and geo-economic upheavals that followed the Cold War.
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Critical Race Theories, Colorism, and the Decade's Research on Families of Color
TL;DR: In the decade of 2000, two interrelated trends influenced research on America's families of color: the need for new knowledge about America's growing ethnic/racial minority and immigrant populations and conceptual advances in critical race theories and perspectives on colorism as discussed by the authors.
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The Role of Language in European Nationalist Ideologies
Jan Blommaert,Jef Verschueren +1 more
TL;DR: Hobsbawm as mentioned in this paper concludes that "the phenomenon [of nationalism] is past its peak." (p. 183) Before he gets to this conclusion (apparently written some time in 1989, still before German reunification became a realistic possibility and before the process of fragmentation in some countries of the old Communist Bloc had gained momentum), he shows quite convincingly, and almost prophetically, that a new "Europe of nations" in the Wilsonian sense (with independent entities such as Catalonia, Corsica, Slovenia, Estonia, etc.) could not produce 'a
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The making of English national identity
TL;DR: The Making of English National Identity as discussed by the authors examines the rise of English nationalism and issues of race and ethnicity from earliest times to the present day, and argues that the long history of the English as an imperial people has developed a sense of missionary nationalism which in the interests of unity and empire has necessitated the repression of ordinary expressions of nationalism.
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Straddling Boundaries: Identity, Culture, and School
TL;DR: This article examined three groups of low-income African American and Latino students who differ in how they believe group members should behave culturally, i.e., cultural mainstreamers, cultural straddlers, and noncompliant believers.