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11/19/01

LIBRARY FRIENDS CELEBRATE PUBLICATION OF GLOBAL STUDIES BOOK

CANTON - The Friends of Owen D. Young and Launders Libraries at 
St. Lawrence University will hold a reception to honor the publication 
of the book Global Multiculturalism: Comparative Perspectives on 
Ethnicity, Race, and Nation, co-edited by Professor of Philosophy 
Grant H. Cornwell and Professor of English Eve W. Stoddard, and 
with essays by many St. Lawrence professors, on Friday, November 
30, at 4 p.m. in the Josephine Young Room of Owen D. Young 
Library. The event is open to the public; Cornwell and Stoddard 
will speak about the book.
	Publishers Rowman & Littlefield 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 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, Munsil 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, associate 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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