Download or read book Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Minority Rights written by Stephen May and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on minority rights and recognition, this interdisciplinary collection addresses the position of minorities in democratic societies. Featured topics include the constructed nature of ethnicity, class and the "new racism," different forms of nationalism, self-determination and indigenous politics, the politics of recognition versus the politics of redistribution, and the re-emergence of cosmopolitanism.