- 1995/253 pages
Creating Boundaries:
The Politics of Race and Nation
Manzo sets the modern nation-state in historical, global, and philosophical context to support three key themes. First, she argues that the theoretical literature on nations and nationalism is limited by a too-ready acceptance of modern ideas and modern practices of boundary creation. Second, she shows that the articulation of race with nation continues even in those societies that have long prided themselves on being "nonracial." Finally, she demonstrates that the concept of race, far from being about something as straightforward as black or white, has been created and recreated in various settings as nations have been made and remade, and vice versa; race and nation have been and remain mutually constitutive.
Case studies of South Africa, Britain, and Australia provide strong defense of Manzo's arguments.
