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12/11/00

NEW BOOK ON GLOBAL EDUCATION WRITTEN, EDITED BY SLU FACULTY

CANTON -- A collection of case studies on ethnic, racial and cultural diversity 
drawn from 13 countries, written and edited by St. Lawrence University faculty 
members, is being published this month.
	Global Multiculturalism: Comparative Perspectives on Ethnicity, Race, 
and Nation is due out this month from Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. It is 
edited by Professor of Philosophy Grant H. Cornwell and Professor of English 
Eve W. Stoddard, who also provide an introduction to the volume.
	The publishers state that "A multi-disciplinary group of authors shows 
how, in different nations, identity groups are included, or made invisible by 
forced assimilation, or reviled even to the point of genocide. Framed within 
a theoretical discussion of national identity, transnationalism, hybridity and 
diaspora, each chapter surveys the demographics and history of its country 
and then analyzes the dynamics of diversity."
	Each chapter of the book deals with a different country and each is 
written by a St. Lawrence faculty member or team, with expertise in that 
country. Chapters and authors are:
	- Miscegenation as a Metaphor for Nation Building: The Douglarisation 
Controversy in Trinidad and Tobago, Cornwell and Stoddard
	- The Chinese in Thailand: Ethnicity and Power, Ansil Ramsay, professor 
of government
	- To Be French: Franco-Maghrebians and the Commission de la Nationalité, 
Judith DeGroat, associate professor of history
	- Spectacular Imaginings: Performing Community in Guatemala, Kirk Fuoss 
and Randall Hill, associate professors of speech and theatre
	- Brazil: Interactions and Conflicts in a Multicultural Society, Steven 
White, professor of modern languages and literatures, and Edimilson de Almeida 
Pereira
	- Songs in a Strange Land: Race, Dual Consciousness, and the Narrative 
of African-American Identity in the United States, Joseph Kling, professor of 
government
	- Letting the Side Down: Personal Reflections on Colonial and Independent 
Kenya, Celia Nyamweru, associate professor of anthropology
	- Race in the Formation of Cuban National and Cultural Identity, Henley 
Adams, former Jeffrey Campbell Graduate Fellow in government
	- The Zimbabwe Constitution: Race, Land Reform and Social Justice, 
Patricia Alden, professor of English, and John Makumbe
	- Bosnia: Two Days in November, William Hunt, professor of history
	- The Crisis of the Mexican State and the Nation: Chiapas as Metaphor, 
Laura Nuzzi O'Shaughnessy, Dana professor of government
	- China's Ethnicities: State Ideology and Policy in Historical Perspective, 
Anne Csete, assistant professor of history
	- Official Multiculturalism in Canada: Between Virtue and Politics, Louis 
Dupont, former visiting professor of Canadian studies, and Nathalie LeMarchand

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