New Tribalisms

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

Herbert Blumer (1900-1987) Was one of sociology's most innovative voices and sharpest critics. Walker Connor, is John R. Reitemeyer Professor Political Science, Trinity College, Hartford, CT.John Higham, Professor Emeritus, John Hopkins University.Michael W. Hughey, Professor of Sociology, Moorhead State University, Moorhead, MN.Rita Jalali, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Michigan State University.Seymour Martin Lipset, is the Virginia E. Hazel and John T. Hazel Chair of Public Policy st George Mason University and Seior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.Stanford M. Lyman, is Robert J. Morrow, Eminent Scholar and Professor of Social Science, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida.Gunnar Myrdal (1898-1987), was an influential Swedish social scientist and a 1977 Nobel Laureate in Economics.Joane Nagel, political sociologist, University of Kansas.Yossi Shain, teaches political science at Tel Aviv University, visiting fellow St Antony's College, Oxford.Arthur J. Vidich, Senior Lecturer, professor Emeritus, Sociology and Anthropology, Graduate Faculty, New School of Social Research.Mary C. Waters, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University.Max Weber(1864-1920), was a highly influential German sociologist, historian and philosopher.Howard Winant,Professor of Socilogy, Temple University.Robert Wistrich,Professor of Modern Jewish History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.