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Until the end of the Cold War, the politics of national identity was confined to isolated incidents of ethnics strife and civil war in distant countries. Now, with the collapse of Communist regimes across Europe and the loosening of the Cold War's clamp on East-West relations, a surge of nationalism has swept the world stage. In Blood and Belonging, Ignatieff makes a thorough examination of why blood ties-in places as diverse as Yugoslavia, Kurdistan,...

Illustrations and rhyming text celebrate the diversity of cultures, languages, countries, and people of the world.

"Tackles head-on the debate that has been raging on internet message boards and in academic journals. No longer limited by the fringe, race-based studies of intelligence have been discussed by thinkers such as Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson. If these studies were true, they would provide an intellectual justification for inequality and discrimination. Examining the latest research on how intelligence develops and laying out new discoveries in genetics,...

Examines the changing role of ethnicity in the lives of Americans from a broad range of European backgrounds and the formation of a new European-American ethnicity which has its own myths about its place in American history and its relation to the American identity.

While studying the Harlem Renaissance, students at a Bronx high school read aloud poems they've written, revealing their innermost thoughts and fears to their formerly clueless classmates.

Despite the differences between people around the world, there are similarities that join us together, such as pain, joy, and love.