Examines the origins, expressions and implications of resurgent ethnic loyalties in contemporary society. The text includes sections on the American experience with ethnoracial pluralism and ethnonationalist movements in other parts of the world.

This text examines the origins, expressions and implications of resurgent ethnic loyalties in contemporary society. It includes sections on the American experience with ethnoracial pluralism and ethnonationalist movements in other parts of the world. The contributors offer both a conceptual understanding of race and ethnicity and an empirical examination of their renewed importance in, and implications for, contemporary societies.

Series Preface
R.Jackall &
A.J.Vidich - Introduction
M.W.Hughey - PART ONE: RACIAL AND ETHNIC PLURALISM: SOCIOLOGICAL CONCEPTIONS - Race and Ethnicity
M.Weber - Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position
H.Blumer - Beyond Reason: The Nature of the Ethnonational Bond
W.Connor - PART TWO: RESURGENT TRIBALISMS: FOUNDATIONS AND IMPLICATIONS OF THE NEW AMERICAN PLURALISM - An American Dilemma
G.Myrdal - Americanism and Its Discontents: Protestantism, Nativism, and Political Heresy in America
M.W.Hughey - The Race Question and Liberalism: Casuistries in American Constitutional Law
S.M.Lyman - The New American Pluralism: Racial and Ethnic Sodalities and Their Sociological Implications
M.W.Hughey &
A.J.Vidich - Contesting the Meaning of Race in the Post-Civil Rights Period
H.Winant - Multiculturalism and Universalism: A History and Critique
J.Higham - Constructing Ethnicity: Creating and Recreating Ethnic Identity and Culture
J.Nagel - The Costs of a Costless Community
M.C.Waters - PART THREE: A NEW WORLD DISORDER: INTERNATIONAL DILEMMAS OF RACIAL AND ETHNIC PLURALISM - Multicultural Foreign Policy
Y.Shain - Racial and Ethnic Conflicts: A Global Perspective
R.Jalali &
S.M.Lipset - Ethnic Nationalism: Politics, Ideology, and the World Order
J.Nagel - Nationalism Reborn
R.Wistrich - Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Index