Human Rights, Ethnicity, and Discrimination (Contributions in Ethnic Studies)

ISBN: 0313246556

Author: Van Dyke, Vernon

Condition: New

Review ?Van Dyke challenges prevailing Western individualism by favoring reasonable group rights based on language, religion, and race. He presents a balanced selection of justifiable and discriminatory, successful and failed cases of group differentiation.... Van Dyke's comparative and theoretical analysis offers no empirical guidance about whether increased group rights would exacerbate or ameliorate national divisions. Nevertheless, his scholarly, temperate rationale deserves consideration from proponents of both individual rights and national unity. Both public and academic libraries, community college students and up.?-Choice"Van Dyke challenges prevailing Western individualism by favoring reasonable group rights based on language, religion, and race. He presents a balanced selection of justifiable and discriminatory, successful and failed cases of group differentiation.... Van Dyke's comparative and theoretical analysis offers no empirical guidance about whether increased group rights would exacerbate or ameliorate national divisions. Nevertheless, his scholarly, temperate rationale deserves consideration from proponents of both individual rights and national unity. Both public and academic libraries, community college students and up."-Choice About the Author n Dyke /f Vernon