Walker Connor
Biographic Data
| ID | 128071 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Walker Connor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Walker |
| FAMILY NAME | Connor |
| SIGNATURE | CONNOR W |
| AFFILIATIONS | SUNY Brockport |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 872 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Nation‐State
The term “nation‐state” was originally intended to describe a political unit (a state) whose borders coincided or roughly coincided with the territorial distribution of a nation, the latter in its pristine sense of a human grouping that share a conviction of being ancestrally related. The word “nation” derives from the Latin verb nasci (meaning to be born) and its noun form, natio (connoting breed or race). The very coining of the hyphenate “nati…
Nation‐State
The term “nation‐state” was originally intended to describe a political unit (a state) whose borders coincided or roughly coincided with the territorial distribution of a nation, the latter in its pristine sense of a human grouping who share a conviction of being ancestrally related. Today, “nation” is often used as a substitute for a state or as a synonym for the population of a state without regard to its ethnonational composition. With the dis…
Ethnonationalism
Ethnonationalism (also called “ethnic nationalism”) connotes identity with and loyalty to a nation in the sense of a human grouping predicated upon a myth of common ancestry. Seldom will the myth find support in scientific evidence. DNA analyses of the patrilineally bequeathed Y chromosome attest that nations tend to be neither genetically homogeneous nor hermetical, and analyses of the matrilineally bequeathed mitochondrial DNA customarily attes…
Can autonomy stunt the self-determination impulse? Tensions arising from ethnic and political borders
Article Can autonomy stunt the self-determination impulse? Tensions arising from ethnic and political borders was published on January 1, 2012 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 2012, issue 213)
Ethnonationalism
Ethnonationalism (variant: ethnic nationalism ) connotes identity with and loyalty to a nation in the sense of a human grouping predicated upon a myth of common ancestry. Seldom will the myth find support in scientific evidence. DNA analyses of the patrilineally bequeathed Y chromosome attest that nations tend to be neither genetically homogeneous nor hermetical, and analyses of the matrilineally bequeathed mitochrondrial DNA customarily attest t…
The timelessness of nations
Anthony Smith has criticized my conclusion that most of the peoples currently recognized as constituting nations acquired national consciousness only in the late nineteenth or early twentieth centuries. He traces our disagreement to fundamental differences concerning the essence of the nation. A comparison of our definitions confirms profound differences, and it is contended that Smith's definitions, by joining two quite dissimilar and often conf…
Books in review
Ethnonationalism: The Quest for Understanding
Beyond Reason: The Nature of the Ethnonational Bond
Nationalism, as commonly encountered in the press, television news and even in most scholarly tracts, refers to an emotional attachment to one’s state or country and its political institutions – an attachment more properly termed patriotism. Nationalism, in correct usage, refers to an emotional attachment to one’s people – one’s ethnonational group. It is therefore proper to speak of an English, Scottish, or Welsh nationalism, but not of a ‘Briti…
Beyond reason: The nature of the ethnonational bond
By and large, both statesmen and scholars have failed to comprehend the non‐rational, emotional well‐springs of ethnonationalism and, consequently, have tended to underestimate its capacity for influencing group behaviour. By contrast, those who have successfully appealed to ethnonationalism have understood that at the core of ethnopsychology is a conviction that members of the nation are all ancestrally related, and they have not hesitated to ap…
The Nation and its Myth
The Nation and its Myth
From tribe to nation
Despite the extensive effort that generations of chroniclers and analysts have devoted to the history of Europe and its peoples, assigning dates to the acquisition of national consciousness by any of Europe’s roughly fifty national groups remains a most contentious undertaking. Disagreement is very conspicuous in the writings of some of the last generation’s distinguished historians. To the French medieval authority, Marc Bloch, for example, ‘the…
When is a nation
Although numerous authorities have addressed the question, 'What is a nation?', far less attention has been paid to the question, 'At what point in its development does a nation come into being?' Evidence is offered that Europe's currently recognized nations emerged only very recently, often centuries later than the dates customarily assigned. In some cases, it is problematic whether nationhood has even yet been achieved. Four problems involved i…
The Fourth Wave: California's Newest Immigrants
Journal Article The Fourth Wave: California's Newest Immigrants and Mexican-Americans in Comparative Perspective Get access The Fourth Wave: California's Newest Immigrants. By Muller Thomas et al. (Washington, D.C.: The Urban Institute Press, 1985. xvii +217 pp. Charts, tables, notes, bibliography.)Mexican-Americans in Comparative Perspective. Edited by Connor Walker. (Washington, D.C.: The Urban Institute Press, 1985. xxvii + 373 pp. Tables, not…
Short reviews
Katherine O'Sullivan See, FIRST WORLD NATIONALISMS: CLASS AND ETHNIC POLITICS IN NORTHERN IRELAND AND QUEBEC, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1986, 215 pp. £25.50 (h.b.); £10.25 (p.b.) Gundara, J., Jones, C. and Kimberley, K., (eds.), RACISM, DIVERSITY AND EDUCATION. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1986, pp. 192. £4.95. Vivienne Coombe and Alan Little (eds): RACE AND SOCIAL WORK, A GUIDE TO TRAINING, London: Tavistock Publications,…
Eco- or ethno-nationalism
Short reviews
David Nicholls, FROM DESSALINES TO DUVALIER: RACE, COLOUR AND NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE IN HAITI, Cambridge University Press, 1979, 357 pp., £17.50. William B. Cohen, THE FRENCH ENCOUNTER WITH AFRICANS: WHITE RESPONSES TO BLACKS 1530–1880, Bloomington and London, Indiana University Press, 1980, xix + 360 pp., $22.50. Laurence Lustgarten, LEGAL CONTROL OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, London, Macmillan, 1980, 263 pp. £12.00 (p.b.), £20.00 (h.b.). Rocky L. Ro…
Ethnicity, race and class in the United States
Orlando Patterson, Ethnic Chauvinism: The Reactionary Impulse, New York: Stein and Day, 1977, 347 pp., $15.00. William Julius Wilson, The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1978, xxi + 204 pp. £8.85
Short reviews
Milton M. Gordon, HUMAN NATURE, CLASS AND ETHNICITY. London and New York, Oxford University Press, 1978, 302 pp., £6.50, $11.95 ($3.50 paper). June Teufel Dreyer, CHINA'S FORTY MILLIONS: MINORITY NATIONALITIES AND NATIONAL INTEGRATION IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA. Cambridge (Mass.) and London, Harvard University Press, 1976, 333 pp., £9.55. W. Stanford Reid (ed), THE SCOTTISH TRADITION IN CANADA. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1976, xi + 324…
A nation is a nation, is a state, is an ethnic group is a
(1978). A nation is a nation, is a state, is an ethnic group is a ... . Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 377-400
Nation-Building or Nation-Destroying
Scholars associated with theories of “nation-building” have tended either to ignore the question of ethnic diversity or to treat the matter of ethnic identity superficially as merely one of a number of minor impediments to effective state-integration. To the degree that ethnic identity is given recognition, it is apt to be as a somewhat unimportant and ephemeral nuisance that will unquestionably give way to a common identity uniting all inhabitan…
Ethnology and the Peace of South Asia
The distribution of ethnic groups throughout South Asia constitutes the region's single most significant strategic factor. Other factors, varying in importance according to specific location and time, do, of course, interact with the ethnic factor. Thus, the topographic, political, economic, and transportation maps all contribute essential elements to our knowledge of the region. Nevertheless, the settlement pattern of distinct culture-groups, as…
Self-Determination: The New Phase
Can two or more self-differentiating culture-groups coexist within a single political structure? The question may well seem clearly settled by the overwhelming factual evidence of contemporary international politics, for it is indeed a truism that political and ethnic borders seldom coincide. Thus, the very existence of a host of multinational states, including such a time-tested example as the Soviet Union, would appear to document an affirmativ…
Ethnonationalism: The Quest for Understanding
Nation-Building or Nation-Destroying
Scholars associated with theories of “nation-building” have tended either to ignore the question of ethnic diversity or to treat the matter of ethnic identity superficially as merely one of a number of minor impediments to effective state-integration. To the degree that ethnic identity is given recognition, it is apt to be as a somewhat unimportant and ephemeral nuisance that will unquestionably give way to a common identity uniting all inhabitan…
A nation is a nation, is a state, is an ethnic group is a
(1978). A nation is a nation, is a state, is an ethnic group is a ... . Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 377-400
When is a nation
Although numerous authorities have addressed the question, 'What is a nation?', far less attention has been paid to the question, 'At what point in its development does a nation come into being?' Evidence is offered that Europe's currently recognized nations emerged only very recently, often centuries later than the dates customarily assigned. In some cases, it is problematic whether nationhood has even yet been achieved. Four problems involved i…
The timelessness of nations
Anthony Smith has criticized my conclusion that most of the peoples currently recognized as constituting nations acquired national consciousness only in the late nineteenth or early twentieth centuries. He traces our disagreement to fundamental differences concerning the essence of the nation. A comparison of our definitions confirms profound differences, and it is contended that Smith's definitions, by joining two quite dissimilar and often conf…
Eco- or ethno-nationalism
Self-Determination: The New Phase
Can two or more self-differentiating culture-groups coexist within a single political structure? The question may well seem clearly settled by the overwhelming factual evidence of contemporary international politics, for it is indeed a truism that political and ethnic borders seldom coincide. Thus, the very existence of a host of multinational states, including such a time-tested example as the Soviet Union, would appear to document an affirmativ…
The Nation and its Myth
Ethnology and the Peace of South Asia
The distribution of ethnic groups throughout South Asia constitutes the region's single most significant strategic factor. Other factors, varying in importance according to specific location and time, do, of course, interact with the ethnic factor. Thus, the topographic, political, economic, and transportation maps all contribute essential elements to our knowledge of the region. Nevertheless, the settlement pattern of distinct culture-groups, as…
From tribe to nation
Despite the extensive effort that generations of chroniclers and analysts have devoted to the history of Europe and its peoples, assigning dates to the acquisition of national consciousness by any of Europe’s roughly fifty national groups remains a most contentious undertaking. Disagreement is very conspicuous in the writings of some of the last generation’s distinguished historians. To the French medieval authority, Marc Bloch, for example, ‘the…
Can autonomy stunt the self-determination impulse? Tensions arising from ethnic and political borders
Article Can autonomy stunt the self-determination impulse? Tensions arising from ethnic and political borders was published on January 1, 2012 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 2012, issue 213)
Self-Determination: The New Phase
Can two or more self-differentiating culture-groups coexist within a single political structure? The question may well seem clearly settled by the overwhelming factual evidence of contemporary international politics, for it is indeed a truism that political and ethnic borders seldom coincide. Thus, the very existence of a host of multinational states, including such a time-tested example as the Soviet Union, would appear to document an affirmativ…
Ethnology and the Peace of South Asia
The distribution of ethnic groups throughout South Asia constitutes the region's single most significant strategic factor. Other factors, varying in importance according to specific location and time, do, of course, interact with the ethnic factor. Thus, the topographic, political, economic, and transportation maps all contribute essential elements to our knowledge of the region. Nevertheless, the settlement pattern of distinct culture-groups, as…
Nation-Building or Nation-Destroying
Scholars associated with theories of “nation-building” have tended either to ignore the question of ethnic diversity or to treat the matter of ethnic identity superficially as merely one of a number of minor impediments to effective state-integration. To the degree that ethnic identity is given recognition, it is apt to be as a somewhat unimportant and ephemeral nuisance that will unquestionably give way to a common identity uniting all inhabitan…
Short reviews
Milton M. Gordon, HUMAN NATURE, CLASS AND ETHNICITY. London and New York, Oxford University Press, 1978, 302 pp., £6.50, $11.95 ($3.50 paper). June Teufel Dreyer, CHINA'S FORTY MILLIONS: MINORITY NATIONALITIES AND NATIONAL INTEGRATION IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA. Cambridge (Mass.) and London, Harvard University Press, 1976, 333 pp., £9.55. W. Stanford Reid (ed), THE SCOTTISH TRADITION IN CANADA. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1976, xi + 324…
A nation is a nation, is a state, is an ethnic group is a
(1978). A nation is a nation, is a state, is an ethnic group is a ... . Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 377-400
Ethnicity, race and class in the United States
Orlando Patterson, Ethnic Chauvinism: The Reactionary Impulse, New York: Stein and Day, 1977, 347 pp., $15.00. William Julius Wilson, The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1978, xxi + 204 pp. £8.85
Short reviews
David Nicholls, FROM DESSALINES TO DUVALIER: RACE, COLOUR AND NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE IN HAITI, Cambridge University Press, 1979, 357 pp., £17.50. William B. Cohen, THE FRENCH ENCOUNTER WITH AFRICANS: WHITE RESPONSES TO BLACKS 1530–1880, Bloomington and London, Indiana University Press, 1980, xix + 360 pp., $22.50. Laurence Lustgarten, LEGAL CONTROL OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, London, Macmillan, 1980, 263 pp. £12.00 (p.b.), £20.00 (h.b.). Rocky L. Ro…
Eco- or ethno-nationalism
Short reviews
Katherine O'Sullivan See, FIRST WORLD NATIONALISMS: CLASS AND ETHNIC POLITICS IN NORTHERN IRELAND AND QUEBEC, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1986, 215 pp. £25.50 (h.b.); £10.25 (p.b.) Gundara, J., Jones, C. and Kimberley, K., (eds.), RACISM, DIVERSITY AND EDUCATION. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1986, pp. 192. £4.95. Vivienne Coombe and Alan Little (eds): RACE AND SOCIAL WORK, A GUIDE TO TRAINING, London: Tavistock Publications,…
The Fourth Wave: California's Newest Immigrants
Journal Article The Fourth Wave: California's Newest Immigrants and Mexican-Americans in Comparative Perspective Get access The Fourth Wave: California's Newest Immigrants. By Muller Thomas et al. (Washington, D.C.: The Urban Institute Press, 1985. xvii +217 pp. Charts, tables, notes, bibliography.)Mexican-Americans in Comparative Perspective. Edited by Connor Walker. (Washington, D.C.: The Urban Institute Press, 1985. xxvii + 373 pp. Tables, not…
When is a nation
Although numerous authorities have addressed the question, 'What is a nation?', far less attention has been paid to the question, 'At what point in its development does a nation come into being?' Evidence is offered that Europe's currently recognized nations emerged only very recently, often centuries later than the dates customarily assigned. In some cases, it is problematic whether nationhood has even yet been achieved. Four problems involved i…
From tribe to nation
Despite the extensive effort that generations of chroniclers and analysts have devoted to the history of Europe and its peoples, assigning dates to the acquisition of national consciousness by any of Europe’s roughly fifty national groups remains a most contentious undertaking. Disagreement is very conspicuous in the writings of some of the last generation’s distinguished historians. To the French medieval authority, Marc Bloch, for example, ‘the…
The Nation and its Myth
The Nation and its Myth
Beyond Reason: The Nature of the Ethnonational Bond
Nationalism, as commonly encountered in the press, television news and even in most scholarly tracts, refers to an emotional attachment to one’s state or country and its political institutions – an attachment more properly termed patriotism. Nationalism, in correct usage, refers to an emotional attachment to one’s people – one’s ethnonational group. It is therefore proper to speak of an English, Scottish, or Welsh nationalism, but not of a ‘Briti…
Beyond reason: The nature of the ethnonational bond
By and large, both statesmen and scholars have failed to comprehend the non‐rational, emotional well‐springs of ethnonationalism and, consequently, have tended to underestimate its capacity for influencing group behaviour. By contrast, those who have successfully appealed to ethnonationalism have understood that at the core of ethnopsychology is a conviction that members of the nation are all ancestrally related, and they have not hesitated to ap…
Ethnonationalism: The Quest for Understanding
Books in review
The timelessness of nations
Anthony Smith has criticized my conclusion that most of the peoples currently recognized as constituting nations acquired national consciousness only in the late nineteenth or early twentieth centuries. He traces our disagreement to fundamental differences concerning the essence of the nation. A comparison of our definitions confirms profound differences, and it is contended that Smith's definitions, by joining two quite dissimilar and often conf…
Ethnonationalism
Ethnonationalism (variant: ethnic nationalism ) connotes identity with and loyalty to a nation in the sense of a human grouping predicated upon a myth of common ancestry. Seldom will the myth find support in scientific evidence. DNA analyses of the patrilineally bequeathed Y chromosome attest that nations tend to be neither genetically homogeneous nor hermetical, and analyses of the matrilineally bequeathed mitochrondrial DNA customarily attest t…
Can autonomy stunt the self-determination impulse? Tensions arising from ethnic and political borders
Article Can autonomy stunt the self-determination impulse? Tensions arising from ethnic and political borders was published on January 1, 2012 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 2012, issue 213)
Nation‐State
The term “nation‐state” was originally intended to describe a political unit (a state) whose borders coincided or roughly coincided with the territorial distribution of a nation, the latter in its pristine sense of a human grouping who share a conviction of being ancestrally related. Today, “nation” is often used as a substitute for a state or as a synonym for the population of a state without regard to its ethnonational composition. With the dis…
Ethnonationalism
Ethnonationalism (also called “ethnic nationalism”) connotes identity with and loyalty to a nation in the sense of a human grouping predicated upon a myth of common ancestry. Seldom will the myth find support in scientific evidence. DNA analyses of the patrilineally bequeathed Y chromosome attest that nations tend to be neither genetically homogeneous nor hermetical, and analyses of the matrilineally bequeathed mitochondrial DNA customarily attes…
Nation‐State
The term “nation‐state” was originally intended to describe a political unit (a state) whose borders coincided or roughly coincided with the territorial distribution of a nation, the latter in its pristine sense of a human grouping that share a conviction of being ancestrally related. The word “nation” derives from the Latin verb nasci (meaning to be born) and its noun form, natio (connoting breed or race). The very coining of the hyphenate “nati…
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