Land of the Cosmic Race is a richly-detailed ethnographic account of the powerful role that race and color play in organizing the lives and thoughts of ordinary Mexicans. It presents a …
For decades after the declaration of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, the Turkish state promoted the idea of a desired citizen. The Kemalist state treated these citizens as superior …
WD Roth, P Solís, CA Sue - American Sociological Review, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
A core sociological claim is that race is a social construction; an important illustration of this is how racial classifications are influenced by people's socioeconomic status. In both Latin …
P Singh, M Vom Hau - Comparative Political Studies, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
This article revisits and seeks to challenge one of the most powerful hypotheses in the political economy scholarship: the supposedly negative relationship between ethnic …
Nationalism has long been a normatively and empirically contested concept, associated with democratic revolutions and public goods provision, but also with xenophobia, genocide, and …
M Tudor, D Slater - Perspectives on Politics, 2021 - cambridge.org
Divided societies have long been seen as terrible terrain for democracy. Yet some countries in South and Southeast Asia have managed to overcome ethnic and religious rifts and …
For many decades, scholars assumed voluntary compliance and citizens' commitment to a regime's principles and values to be critical for regime stability. A growing literature argues …
For many decades, scholars have assumed that voluntary compliance and citizens' commitment to a regime's principles and values are critical for regime stability. A growing …
H Lindo-Fuentes, E Ching - 2012 - books.google.com
In the 1960s and 1970s, El Salvador's reigning military regime instituted a series of reforms that sought to modernize the country and undermine ideological radicalism, the most …