"Human rights, Ethnicity and Discrimination"

By:

"Van Dyke, Vernon"

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London; Greenwood; 1985Description: 259pISBN:

313246556

Subject(s):

Civil rights

DDC classification:

323.1 Van

Summary: "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

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Gandhi Smriti Library	323.1 Van (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		33306

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"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

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