Table of Contents

               

I.      CONCEPTUALISING DOMINANT ETHNICITY

 

1      Introduction - Dominant Ethnicity: From Background to Foreground - Dr. Eric Kaufmann (Birkbeck College, University of London)

 

2      Ethnic Cores and Dominant Ethnies - Professor Anthony Smith (LSE)

 

3      The Identity and Changing Status of Former Elite Minorities: the Contrasting cases of North Indian Muslims and American WASPs – Prof. Theodore Wright (SUNY-Albany)

 

4      Dominant Ethnicity and Dominant Nationhood: with a focus on Switzerland, Mexico and Iraq – Dr. Andreas Wimmer (U. Bonn)

 

II     DOMINANT ETHNICITY IN TRANSITION

 

5      The Decline of the 'WASP' in the United States and Canada – Dr. Eric Kaufmann (Birkbeck College, University of London)

 

6      'Pure Laine' Québecois: the Concealed Identity of Dominant Majorities – Prof. Danielle Juteau (U.Q. à Montréal)

 

7      The Concept of 'Dominant Ethnicity' in the case of France – Prof. Dominique Schnapper (U. Paris)

 

8      The Strange Death of Protestant Britain – Prof. Steve Bruce (U. Aberdeen)

 

9      Russians as a Dominant Ethnie – Prof. Geoffrey Hosking (SSEES, London)

 

 

        III    DOMINANT ETHNICITY RESURGENT

 

10    Citizenship, Immigration and Ethnic Hegemony in Japan – Dr. Keiko Yamanaka (U.C. Berkeley)

 

11    Towards a Theory of Ethnocratic Regimes: Learning from the Judaization of Israel/Palestine – Prof. Oren Yiftachel (U. Tel-Aviv) & Dr. As'ad Ghanem (U. Haifa)

 

12    ‘Majority Ethnic’ Claims and Authoritarian Nationalism: The Case Of Hindutva – Dr. Chetan Bhatt (Goldsmith's College, University of London)

 

13    The Dynamics of Ethnic Minority Domination in Fiji – Prof. Ralph Premdas (U.W.I. Trinidad)