Black Nationalism and African American Public Opinion
Explores the current understandings of Black Nationalism among African Americans, providing a balanced and critical view of today's black political agenda
Immigration and National Identity in an Age of Terror
Is it possible to reconcile two different nationalities, cultures, and psychologies? And what do Americans have a right to expect of immigrants and what do they have a right to expect of Americans? This title offers insight into the political and national ramifications of personal loyalties.
This work states that the only way to overcome history is to intimately understand it. It focuses on historical memory, collective national memory, and the political manipulation of national identities. It also assesses the significance of particular manifestations of Balkan national identities.
When Kosovar Albanians came to Albania after the fall of Communism, they found an impoverished motherland. Albania's citizens were dumbstruck by the opulent lifestyles of the Kosovars. Yet, despite their differences, this work states that the myth of a "Greater Albania" persists.
Straddling the domains of cultural and political nationalism, this title examines the Arab past; the clash between Arab and Turkish cultural nationalism in the 19th and early 20th century; and readings of canonical treatises on the topic of Arab cultural nationalism, the major ideological trends linking language to territorial nationalism.
In this groundbreaking work, Ivan Colevic investigates the symbols of politics and the politics of symbols in Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia-Hercegovnia. Ivan Colevic is one of the most widely respected social theorists from the former Yugoslavia. This is the first translation of his work in English.
Crisis of Religious Nationalism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
In this learned and clarifying volume--updated and issued in paperback for the first time--the Ruethers trace the tortured and contested history of Israel/Palestine from biblical times to the subsequent conflict with Arab and Palestinian nationalism.
In this analysis of nationalism, the author questions, in particular, why nations in the West are able to accept the nation as the legitimate space for democratic instutions, whereas in the post-communist world, especially in eastern Europe, ethnicity is pre-eminent.
What are the forces behind the Serbian expansionist drive that has brought death and destruction to Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo? How did the Serbs rationalize this genocide? This study traces Serbia's nationalist and expansionist impulses to the legendary Battle of Kosovo in 1389.
