Short reviews

Milton J. Esman and Itamar Rabinovich (eds), ETHNICITY, PLURALISM, AND THE STATE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1988, 304 pp., $35.00 cloth, $12.95 paper. Akbar S. Ahmed, DISCOVERING ISLAM, MAKING SENSE OF MUSLIM HISTORY AND SOCIETY, London: Routledge, 1988, 251 pp., £9.99 (paper). Edmund Burke, III and Ira M. Lapidus (eds), ISLAM, POLITICS, AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, London: I. B. Tauris, 1988, 332 pp., £29.50. Asaf Hussain, POLITICAL TERRORISM AND THE STATE, London: Mansell, 1989, 203 pp., £35.00. Gershon Shafir, LAND, LABOR AND THE ORIGINS OF THE ISRAELI‐PALESTINIAN CONFLICT, 1882–1914, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989, xvi+288 pp., £25 or US$44.50. Jerzy Zubrzycki, SOLDIERS AND PEASANTS: THE SOCIOLOGY OF POLISH MIGRATION, the second M. B. Grabowski Memorial Lecture, published for the School of Slavonic Studies, University of London, by Orbis Books (London) Ltd., 1988, 167 pp., £5.75. Keith Sword, with Norman Davies and Jan Ciechanowski, THE FORMATION OF THE POLISH COMMUNITY IN GREAT BRITAIN 1939–50, M. B. Grabowski Polish Migration Project Report, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, 1989, 496 pp., n.p. Renee Hirschon, HEIRS OF THE GREEK CATASTROPHE: SOCIAL LIFE OF ASIA MINOR REFUGEES IN PIRAEUS, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, 280 pp., £35.00. Adrian Guelte, NORTHERN IRELAND: THE INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE, Dublin: Gill and MacMillan, 1989, 236 pp., £27.50. David Nicholls, FROM DESSALINES TO DUVALIER: RACE, COLOUR AND NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE IN HAITI, London: Macmillan Caribbean, 1988, xxiii + 357 pp., £9.95. Howard Johnson (ed.), AFTER THE CROSSING: IMMIGRANTS AND MINORITIES IN CARIBBEAN CREOLE SOCIETY, London: Frank Cass, 1978, 143 pp., £15.00. Marietta Morrisey, SLAVE WOMEN IN THE NEW WORLD: GENDER STRATIFICATION IN THE CARIBBEAN, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1989, 202 pp., $29.95. Nira Yural‐Davis and Floya Anthias (eds), WOMAN – NATION – STATE, London: Macmillan, 1989, ix + 185 pp., £9.95 (paper). David Ward, POVERTY, ETHNICITY, AND THE AMERICAN CITY, 1840–1925: CHANGING CONCEPTIONS OF THE SLUM AND THE GHETTO, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989, xiv + 263 pp., £27.50 and £9.95 (paper). Jack Santino, MILES OF SMILES, YEARS OF STRUGGLE: STORIES OF BLACK PULLMAN PORTERS, Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, x + 160 pp., $21.95. Joseph E. Wilson, TEARING DOWN THE COLOR BAR: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY AND ANALYSIS OF THE BROTHERHOOD OF SLEEPING CAR PORTERS, New York: Columbia University Press, x + 396 pp., $45.00. Bob Blauner, BLACK LIVES, WHITE LIVES: THREE DECADES OF RACE RELATIONS IN AMERICA, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, xii + 347 pp. Bernard Wong, PATRONAGE, BROKERAGE, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND THE CHINESE COMMUNITY OF NEW YORK, New York: AMS Press, 1988, x + 348 pp., $56.00. Peter Hanks and Andrew Parry (eds), THE CHINESE IN AUSTRALIA, (Proceedings of the Conference held on 19 March 1988), Clayton, Victoria: Centre for Migrant and Intercultural Studies, Monash University, December 1988, i + 72 pp., n.p. Caesar D'Mello, Francis Kok Wah Loh, Andrew Markus, Radha Rasmussen and Karen Tang, ASIAN IMMIGRATION: ASSESSING THE ISSUES, (Proceedings of the Conference held on 8 October 1988), Clayton, Victoria: Centre for Migrant and Intercultural Studies, Monash University, November 1988, i + 42 pp., n.p. Mairtin Mac an Ghaill, YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK: STUDENT‐TEACHER RELATIONS IN THE SCHOOLING OF BLACK YOUTH, Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1988, viii + 184 pp., £25.00 and £9.95 (paper). Vivian Gussin Paley, WHITE TEACHER, Cambridge Mass: Harvard University Press, 1989 (originally 1979), 142 pp., £6.25 (paper). Michael Banton, RACIAL CONSCIOUSNESS, London: Longman, 1988, 143 pp £12 95 and £5.95 (paper). John Solomos, RACE AND RACISM IN CONTEMPORARY BRITAIN London‐Macmillan, 1989, 209 pp., £30.00 and £8.95 (paper). Neil Price, BEHIND THE PLANTER'S BACK: LOWER CLASS RESPONSES TO MARGINALITY IN BEQUIA ISLAND, ST. VINCENT, London: Macmillan, 1988, xiv + 274pp., £9.95. Philip Sarre, Deborah Phillips, and Richard Skellington, ETHNIC MINORITY HOUSING: EXPLANATIONS AND POLICIES, Aldershot: Avebury, 1989, 384 pp., £35.00. Marlene Sway, FAMILIAR STRANGERS: GYPSY LIFE IN AMERICA, Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1988, 155 pp., $19.95. Michael J. White, AMERICAN NEIGHBORHOODS AND RESIDENTIAL DIFFERENTIATION, New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1988, 327 pp., $37.50. L. Driedger and N. Chappell, AGING AND ETHNICITY TOWARD AN INTERFACE, Butterworths Perspectives on Individual and Population Aging series, Butterworths: Toronto, 1987

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