1. The Concept of Ethnicity. What is an ethnic group? / Max Weber. Structure and persistence of ethnie / Anthony D. Smith. Ethnicity, race and nation / Thomas Hylland Eriksen -- 2. Ethnicity and Nationalism. The nation and the origins of national consciousness / Benedict Anderson. Nationalism as a product of industrial society / Ernest Gellner. An anti-nationalist account of nationalism since 1989 / Eric Hobsbawm -- 3. Ethnicity and Violence. Causes and implications of ethnic conflict / Michael E. Brown. Conflict in Northern Ireland / W. Harvey Cox. Ethnic cleansing in former Yugoslavia / Christopher Bennett -- 4. Ethnicity and Self-determination. Nations without states: Catalonia, a case study / Montserrat Guibernau. Scotland: towards devolution / James McCormick and Wendy Alexander. Canada and Quebec: two nationalisms in the global age / Michael Keating. First nations in the USA / Franke Wilmer -- 5. Multicultural and Plural Societies.

The concept of a multicultural society / John Rex. Plural societies / Leo Kuper -- 6. Citizenship in Multicultural Societies. Ethnicity in the USA / Will Kymlicka. Multiculturalism in welfare states: the case of Germany / Frank-Olaf Radtke -- 7. Migration Theory, Ethnic Mobilization and Globalization. Causes of migration / Douglas S. Massey et al. The nature of ethnicity in the project of migration / John Rex. Diasporas / James Clifford -- 8. Racism and Xenophobia. Racism in Europe: unity and diversity / Michel Wieviorka. The liberal retreat from race since the Civil Rights Act / Stephen Steinberg. 'Class racism' / Etienne Balibar.