Table of Contents

Abkhazians; aborigines; Acehnese; Achebe, Chinua (Nigerian); Adams, Gerry (Northern Ireland Catholic); Adja; Afar; affirmative action; Afghanistan; Africa: a continent of minorities?; African-Americans; Africans: 3: Europe; Afrikaners; Afro-Brazilians; Afro-Caribbeans; Afro-Cubans; Afro-Latin Americans; afrocentricity; Aga Khan (Ismaeli); Ahmadiyas; Ainu; Alawis; Albania; Albanians; Alevis; Algeria; Ali, Muhammad (African-American); Alsatians; Altai; Ambedkar, Bhimrao Ramji (Dalit); American Indian Movement (AIM); Americo-Liberians; Amerindians 1: Overview; Amerindians 2: North America; Amerindians 3: South and Central America; Amish; Andhras; Andorra; Angola; Annobones; anti-semitism; Antigua and Barbuda; Anuak; apartheid; Arab-Americans; Arabs; Arabs: Jordanian; Arabs: North Africa; Arabs: Palestinians; Arafat, Yasser (Palestinain); Arakanese; Argentina; Armenia; Armenians; Arvanites; Asian-Americans; Asian-Australians; Asians in Latin America; Assam Movement; Assamese; Assimilation: forced and voluntary; Assyrians; Australia; Asutria; autonomy; Avars; Ayta (Balugas); Azerbaijan; Bahai; Bahamas; Bai; Bakhtyari; Baluchis; Bangladesh; Bantu; Barbados; Bariba; Bashkir; Basques; Batak; Belarus; Belgium; Belize; Belorussians; Ben Jelloun, Tahar (Algerian); Benin; Berbers; Berta; Bhindranwale, Jarnail Sant (India-Sikh); Bhojpuris; Bihari; Bilingualism; Bonner, Neville Thomas (Aborigine); Bosnia and Herzegovina; Botswana; Bougainvilleans; Brazil; Bretons; Brunei; Bubi; Buddhists; Bulgaria; Burakumin; Buriats; Burkina Faso; Burundi; Cambodia; Cameroon; Canada; Cape Verde; caste and minority status; Catalans; Catholics in Northern Ireland; Cesaire, Aime (Martiniquais); Cham; Chavez, Cesar (Mexican-American); Chechens; Chile; Chin; China; Chinese in Asia; Chinese in Australia; Chinese in the Americas; Chittagong Hill Tribes; Christains 1: Overview; Chuvash; Cicassians; civil rights; civil rights movements; Colombia; colonialism; Comoros; Congo; Congo Republic; Coptic Christians; Corsicans; Costa Rica; Cote d'Ivoire; critical race theory; Croatia; Croats; Cuba; culture: minority influences on the majority; Cyprus; Czech Republic; Da Silva, Benedita (Afro-Brazilian); Dagestanis; Dalai Lama (Tibetan); Damara; Dayaks; De Klerk, F.W. (Afrikaner); Denmark; diaspora; Diaspora: African; Diaspora: Chinese; Diaspora: Indian; Diaspora: Jewish; Diola; Dogris; Dominican Republic; Dong; Druze; Du Bois, W.E.B. (African-American); Dukhobors; East Timor; eductaion rights; Egypt; English; equal opportunity; Equatorial Guinea; Eritrea; Estonia; Ethiopia; ethnic conflict; ethnicity; ethno-nationalism; ethno-psychology; Euronesians; European colonial minorities; Europeans 1: Overview; Europeans 2: Africa; Europeans 3: Asia; Europeans 5: Latin America; Ewe; exchange of population; Falasha (Ethiopian Jews); Fanon, Frantz Omar (Algerian); Farrakhan, Louis (African-American); federalism; Fiji; Filipinos; Finland; Finns; France; French; Frisians; Friulians; Fulani; Gabon; Gagauz

About the Author

Carl Skutsch is an adjunct professor of humanities, School of the Visual Arts, New York City.

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