Democracy and ethnography : constructing identities in multicultural liberal states - Greenhouse, Carol J., 1950-; Kheshti, Roshanak (Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, 1998)
Introduction the ethnography of democracy and difference -- diversity as American cultural category -- democracy and cultural difference in Spanish conidiations of 1978 -- disorderly differences : recognition, accommodation, and American law -- American Ethnogenesis and the 1990 Census Dvora Yanow -- Difference from the People's Point of View -- Porous Borders: Discourses of Difference in Congressional Hearings on Immigration -- To Be Basque and to Live in Basque Country: The Inequalities of Difference -- Acceptable Difference: The Cultural Evolution of the Model Ethnic American Citizen -- The Role of Folklore and Popular Culture in the Construction of Difference in Spain -- Linguistic Constructions of Difference and History in the U.S. Law School Classroom -- from ethnography to clinical practice in the contemporary state.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-285) and index.
Keywords: Multiculturalism -- United States; Multiculturalism -- Spain; Democracy -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Democracy -- Spain -- History -- 20th century; Ethnology -- United States; Ethnology -- Spain; United States -- Ethnic relations; Spain -- Ethnic relations