Ethnics in a Borderland: An Inquiry into the Nature of Ethnicity and Reduction of Ethnic Tensions in a One-Time Genocide Area

by Feliks Gross

Overview

What happens in a region inhabited by various nationalities and hostile ethnic groups after a long period of antagonism and conflicts culminates in genocide and massacres? Are people able to forget the past, to live together as good neighbors? How diverse nationalities, Italians and Slavs, once mortal enemies, learned to live together is one of the major themes of Ethnics in a Borderland.

The area chosen for field research was the Italian borderland, the northern Italian-Yugoslav frontier region, called the Julian Region. As a preliminary step toward examining ethnic tensions, Feliks Gross takes a fresh look at the problem of nationality in the first part of the book. He asks: What is ethnicity? Nationality in terms of the natives? In terms of their perceptions rather than ours? The second part analyzes and tells the story of how, after genocide and massacres, persecutions and conflicts, various nationalities have learned again to live together.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313203107
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/10/1978
Series:	Controversies in Science
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

FELIKS GROSS, Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College, has lectured widely in the United States and Europe.

Table of Contents

Nationality and a Multiethnic Region: Nationality
An Ethnic and Subethnic Universe in a Borderland: Venetians, Friulians, Bisiacs, and Slovenes
Vertical Ethnic Structure
Microethnics and Local Natives
Multiple Identity (Horizontal or Parallel Identity)
Interethnic and International Relations: Reductions of Tensions: Austrians, Slavs, and Italians—The First of Six Stages of Ethnic Relations
Fascists, Nazis, and Resistance—From Oppression to Genocide and Massacres (Stages 2 to 5)
Reduction of Tensions and Conflicts—The Sixth Stage
The Multiethnic State
On Quantification and Ranking of Ethnic Policies
Historical Conditions of World Politics