Summer 1996

Embattled Minorities Around the Globe
Introduction
Part I: Thinking About Minorities
A World Consensus on Human Rights?
The Good, the Bad, and Intolerable: Minority Group Rights
Language and Minorities
Minority Rights: On the Importance of Local Knowledge
Part II: The State of Minorities
Western Hemisphere
Quebec: Which Minority?
On Racial Integration
Minority Rites
Language and American Citizens
Now and Then: Native Peoples in the United States
Between Hope and History
Brazil: Indigenous Rights vs. Neoliberalism
Europe
History’s Walls: Northern Ireland
France: A Crisis of Integration
How Turks Became Kurds, Not Germans
Getting Better, Getting Worse: Minorities in East Central Europe
The State of Nations: The Ex-Soviet Union and Its Peoples
Middle East
Minorities in the Arab Heartland
Turkey, the Kurds, and Human Rights
Palestinian Israelis?
Africa
North Africa: Changes and Challenges
Ethiopia’s Prisoners of Blood
Communist Breakdown, Social Democratic Paralysis
Rights After Liberation
Whites in the New South Africa
Asia
China’s National Minorities and Federalism
India’s Diversity
Riot Journal: Sri Lanka
The Last Page
The Last Page