The Future of Ethnicity, Race, and Nationality

by Walter L. Wallace

Overview

This broad-visioned and insightful book examines the march toward global consolidation of our many ethnic, racial, and nationality groups. About 100,000 years ago the dispersion of what was then a homogenous human population from its point of origin in Eastern Africa began. This was slowly followed by the emergence of ethnic and racial differences among the then separated human populations. The Agricultural Revolution, 10,000 years ago, began the long process of re-establishing contact and eventually consolidating the human species once again, but this time globally.

Wallace contends that consolidation will contribute greatly to the survival of humankind by reducing the deadly threats humans pose to each other. He also argues that ethnic, racial and nationality consolidation does not imply cultural homogeneity; diversity based on interest, vocation, and other factors will serve as even more fertile replacements. The book is expertly researched.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275958312
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/30/1997
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.62(d)
Lexile:	1540L (what's this?)

About the Author

WALTER L. WALLACE is Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. He is author of seven books, including A Weberian Theory of Human Society (1994) and Principles of Scientific Sociology (1983), as well as numerous articles and book chapters.

Table of Contents

Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Grand Cycle
History and Its Societal Engines
Contact
Competition Strategies
What Next?
References
Index

Editorial Reviews

Wallace (sociology, Princeton U.) takes a long and broad look at the history, current situation, and meaning of the concepts. He includes nationality as well as race and ethnicity because historically some of the most powerful nations were ethnically and racially diverse, including ancient Sumer and Egypt, and because nationality can provide as strong a sense of identity and destiny as biological and cultural groupings. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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