... of his family relations into strategic positions, thus entrenching nepotism in the process of statecraft. The study submits that such an approach to statecraft holds negative implications for good governance and national integration in Nigeria. KEYWORDS ethnicity, kinship, nepotism, patronage...

...Emmanuel Oluniyi Ademola In recent times, the occurrence of conflicts between herders and farmers with unexplainable attacks by the Fulani herdsmen in Nigerian states has become worrisome; threatening the unity and security of the country with the fear of war and ethnic invasion. Governmental...

... Protestants and six Catholics, to measure their use of religious references when referring to their religious other . The paper concludes that in the overwhelming majority of cases, both groups did not use religious references, supporting the hypothesis on the integrated nature of ethnicity and religion...

... who are the warring parties in the persistent ethno-religious conflicts ravaging Wukari Local Government Area of Taraba State, Nigeria. Copyright ©ESR, The National Association for Ethnic Studies, 2013 2013 EXPLORING THE DYNAMICS OF IDENTITY BASED CONFLICT AND THE POSSIBILITY FOR ITS SUSTAINABLE...

...Andrea Kay Cooper; David Chin Evans The current research investigates whether communities use ethnicity as a cue when forming personality impressions of others. Past research has shown that dress, smiling, hairstyle, and even facial symmetry of targets produce systematic differences in personality...

... contributes to the existing literature by focusing on how ritual and these types of relationships are intertwined in the production of the carnival. Implications of this research and possible directions for future research are also discussed. Copyright ©ESR, The National Association for Ethnic Studies, 2011...

.... The only option for these customers, many of whom are ethnic minorities and immigrant communities, is to turn to AFS - Alternative Financial Services-the official name of fringe banking. Fringe banks like Ace Cash Express, EZLoans, or Mr. Payroll deliberately target the low- to moderate-income inner-city...

... unflattering depictions of Italian immigrants arriving in the United States. Copyright ©ESR, The National Association for Ethnic Studies, 2011 2011 Immigration Race Ethnicity Italian Civilization Africa "FOR HEART, PATRIOTISM, AND NATIONAL DIGNITY" : THE ITALIAN LANGUAGE PRESS IN NEW YORK CITY...

...Paul Zanazanian Theorists tend to limit ‘history's’ role in the dynamics of ethnicity to that generally played by collective memory. By bringing the notion of historical consciousness to the fore, new possibilities may, however, emerge for discerning how history, as one cultural mode of remembering...

...Matthew Miller In Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life, the elderly, wellrespected and fastidious Franklin “Doc” Hata begins an introspective journey toward a revitalized and reimagined identity. For Lee, this journey affords the chance to address ethnicity and immigration under a unique transnational...

...Dewale Adewale Yagboyaju It is common to interpret African politics in tribal or ethnic terms. In the case of Nigeria, the dominant political behaviour can be defined, on the one hand, in terms of “incessant pressures on the state and the consequent fragmentation or prebendalizing of state-power...

...Robin M. Chandler As a constructed category of human difference, ‘ethnicity’ has given way to ‘culture’ in its shared genealogy in the new millennium. Public knowledge about such phenomena as ‘ethnic cleansing’, debates on immigration, and the use of ethnicity as both a dependent and independent...

...Anissa J. Wardi; Katherine Wardi-Zonna In an urban neighborhood with a large Jewish population near my home, there is an Arabic restaurant. Name, menu and ownership mark its ethnic identification, yet its politics are otherwise obscured. An American flag, permanently placed in the restaurant's...

...Sarah Hentges One of the longest running reality TV shows, with 15 seasons as of 2007, Survivor is an important text for considerations of race and ethnicity, legacies of imperialism, and the idea of the “multicultural” America. Survivor provides an evolving adventure narrative -one that relies...

...Reinaldo Silva Contemporary Portuguese American literature written by Thomas Braga (1943-), Frank Gaspar (1946-), and Katherine Vaz (1955-) share a profusion of topics - with ethnic food being, perhaps, the most representative one. What these writers have in common is that their roots can be traced...

...Nina S. Roberts; Donald A. Rodriguez Understanding outdoor recreation participation and national park visitation by members of ethnic minority groups has been a particular focus of outdoor recreation researchers for the past twenty years. Attracting ethnic minorities, and understanding...

... upon his writings, all of which published in the course of the last seventeen years. While his work appeals to all audiences in the United States of America and even abroad — Portugal in particular — his poems dealing with issues related to his ancestral culture and ethnic background are the ones which...

... to culturally produce and persuade others of their whiteness to the extent Ethnic Studies Review Volume 28: 2 that acts of passing are accepted and authenticated (Ehlers, 2004; Mullen, 1994). More broadly, passing is a practice that sheds light on how individuals relate to social structure and questions...

...Keith M. Kilty; Maria Videl de Haymes The first national census was conducted in 1790, and has been repeated at ten year intervals ever since. While census taking has been consistent, the way individuals have been counted and categorized on the basis of race and ethnicity has varied over time...

... to Portuguese, will connect him with broader audiences so as to convey his ethnic experience, Braga's poems are subtle reminders to mainstream America of the enormous contributions of the peoples of Portuguese descent to the building of the United States of America. Copyright ©ESR, The National Association...