This paper discusses the results of a study of faculty and university staff at two major universities in the Netherlands: the University of Amsterdam and the Free University of Amsterdam. I sought to understand how faculty viewed the role of the university in relationship to national and European goals promoting social cohesion and the integration…

This study tests the hypothesis that ethnicity is more salient in people's self concepts in an ethnically mixed society than in a segregated one, and that in an integrated society, ethnicity is more salient in the self concepts of members of the minority group than the majority group. Subjects were elementary, junior high, and high school…

Analyzes the adaptation of Gypsies to urban contexts through "performances" (such as "passing" as a non-Gypsy, playing up stereotypes, and enacting the role of fortune teller). Reports that a Gypsy's survival depends on knowing which performance role to enact to which audience in which setting. (KH)

This book focuses on a position contrary to the melting pot theory: namely, that group identity persists in America today. Discussed are the nature of ethnicity, the origins of various ethnic groups, the assimilation rate of ethnic groups, competition between ethnic groups, group differences, and the future of ethnic groups. The author…

Questions of group identity, power, and organization are being increasingly recognized as crucial for an understanding of the American scene. Very little attention has been given to Italo-Americans in social science literature, perhaps because of cultural and linguistic barriers to research on their adjustment in this society. Four main sections…

Identifies and defines four models of internal ethnic conflict and discusses those conflicts within various African nations. The corresponding models and countries include Integration Model: Botswana and Somalia; Managed Diversity Model: Ghana, Cote d'Ivorie, Kenya, and Nigeria; Ambivalent Accommodation Model: Ethiopia and Djibouti; and Acute…