"Geography & Ethnic Pluralism (1984) examines the debate around pluralism ? the segmentation of population by race and culture ? as a social and state issue, and explores this issue in Third World and metropolitan contexts. The field is opened up by a re-examination of the seminal work of J.S. Furnivall and M.G. Smith and by exploring the significance of racial and cultural diversity in colonial, post-colonial and metropolitan situations. Case studies written by specialists are presented in each chapter; they represent a wide range of locales, indicating the global nature of the theme and emphasizing the variable significance of ethnicity in different situations." -- Amazon