Race, Class, and Power: Ideology and Revolutionary Change in Plural Societies

by Leo Kuper

Book Overview

Examining in detail the apparently inexorable polarization of society in such countries as Rwanda, Algeria, and South Africa, the author questions whether current theories correctly explain the past or offer adequate guides for the future. In their place he puts forward an alternative neo-Durkheimian view of the possibility of non-violent revolutionary change, based on the development of such social and cultural continuities as already exist within...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0202308006
• ISBN13: 9780202308005
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"