Ethnic Identity: Problems and Prospects for the Twenty-first Century. This item is unavailable.Ethnic Identity: Problems and Prospects for the Twenty-first Century

In this thoughtprovoking reader of mostly new chapters, an international group of scholars link ethnicity to language, nationalism, localism, religion, and other issues in various crucial areas around the globe. Ethnic identities are examined in countries around the globe, including Africa, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Macedonia, the Netherlands, the U.S., Thailand, and the former Yugoslavia. The fourth edition of Ethnic Identity is an excellent teaching tool for courses in race and ethnic relations, and anthropology and ethnic studies.

Lotte Hughes is an historian of Africa and empire, with a Kenya specialism. She was formerly Senior Research Fellow at The Open University (UK), and is now an independent scholar. She has led major research projects on Kenya, including the AHRC-funded 'Managing Heritage, Building Peace' (2008-11, on which research this book is based), and the ESRC-funded 'Cultural Rights and Kenya's New Constitution' (2014-17). She was consultant to the project '“Seeing” Conflict at the Margins', based at the University of Sussex (2017-20). Other key publications include Moving the Maasai: A Colonial Misadventure (2006), and Environment and Empire (2007, co-author William Beinart)

Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) was the winner of the 1978 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. His last book was To Begin Where I Am (FSG, 2001). Many of his works have been translated into English, including, Beginning with My Streets (FSG, 1992), The Year of the Hunter (FSG, 1994), Road-side Dog (FSG, 1998) Milosz's ABC's (FSG, 2001) and To Begin Where I Am (FSG, 2001).