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100 1 $aVasu, Norman.
245 10 $aHow diasporic peoples maintain their identity in multicultural societies :$bChinese, Africans, and Jews /$cNorman Vasu ; with a foreword by Howard Williams.
260 $aLewiston :$bEdwin Mellen Press,$cc2008.
300 $aiii, 273 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [251]-268) and index.
505 0 $aMethodology -- Justification for the choice of episodes -- Structure -- Multiculturalism: a review -- Four stages of the debate on multiculturalism -- Multiculturalism: a summary -- Conceptualising identity -- Two conceptions of identity: essentialism and variation -- Identity as variation: the difficulties posed for liberalism 1 and 2 -- Introducing diasporas -- Reasons for the proliferation of diasporas -- Understanding of diaspora within IR -- Analysing the borders of diaspora -- The conventional nationalist narrative -- Autochthonous claims of tribe -- Conventional understandings of migration -- Radical cosmopolitanism -- Contemporary theorising on diasporas -- diasporas of the checklist: seeking an 'ideal' diaspora -- diasporas as a typology -- diaspora as a condition -- An alternative characterisation of diaspora: a new addition to a crowded constellation -- Representing diaspora: the overseas Chinese of the novel -- Timothy Mo's Sour sweet -- Amy Tan's Joy luck club --
505 0 $aContemporary conceptualisations of the Chinese overseas -- Approach 1: the Chinese overseas of the media and popular texts -- Approach 2: historical roots, myths and language of Chinese identity -- Approach 3: the triangular relationship of host, home and Chinese overseas in identity formation -- Understanding the Chinese diaspora -- from diaspora to diasporic -- Origins and extent of dispersal -- Forced dispersion: slavery -- Free movement: free Africans during the period of slavery -- Whitewashing African worth: the stigmatisation of Africans and Africa -- Diasporic African identity: Negritude, Afrocentrism and double consciousness -- Identity as an unchanging essence -- Identity as dynamic -- The relationship between the diasporic African experience and home -- Jewish identity: ethnicity, Judaism and a condition -- Jewish-ness as ethnicity -- Jewish-ness as Judaism -- Jewish-ness as a condition -- The nature of home: Zionism, territorialism and the Bund -- Zionism --
505 0 $aalternatives to Zionism -- The diasporic Jews and multiculturalism -- The Jews of ancient times -- The Jews of the Middle Ages -- Jews of the modern era -- The failings of liberalism 1 and 2 -- The wider implications of the book: the future of multiculturalism.
650 0 $aCultural pluralism.
650 0 $aEthnicity.
650 0 $aEmigration and immigration$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aChinese$zForeign countries$xEthnic identity.
650 0 $aAfricans$zForeign countries$xEthnic identity.
650 0 $aJews$xIdentity.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aVasu, Norman.$tHow diasporic peoples maintain their identity in multicultural societies.$dLewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2008$w(OCoLC)615218482
776 08 $iOnline version:$aVasu, Norman.$tHow diasporic peoples maintain their identity in multicultural societies.$dLewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2008$w(OCoLC)627830910
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