Marc Howard Ross is William Rand Kenan, Jr., Professor of Political Science at Bryn Mawr College. He is author or editor of seven books, including Cultural Contestation in Ethnic Conflict.

"[This volume's] strong comparative framework reflects both the careful scholarship of each author as well as the excellent editorial work of Marc Howard Ross. He has managed to elicit from this collection a drive and coherence that makes the entire book a pleasure to read."-Political Psychology

• Preface1. Cultural Contestation and the Symbolic Landscape: Politics by Other Means?-Marc Howard Ross2. The Rise and Fall of a Sacred Place: Ayodhya over Three Decades-Richard H. Davis3. Social Lives of the Dead: Contestation and Continuities in the Hawaiian Repatriation Context-Greg Johnson4. Flagging Peace: Struggles over Symbolic Landscape in the New Northern Ireland Dominic-Bryan Clifford Stevenson5. Conflict Transformation, Cultural Innovation, and Loyalist Identity in Northern Ireland-Lee A. Smithey6. Islamic Headscarves in Public Schools: Explaining France's Legal Restrictions-Elaine R. Thomas7. Minority Language Policy in France: Jacobinism, Cultural Pluralism, and Ethnoregional Identities-Britt Cartrite8. Symbols of Reconciliation or Instruments of Division? A Critical Look at New Monuments in South Africa-Sabine Marschall9. Emerging Multiculturalisms in South African Museum Practice: Some Examples from the Western Cape-Crain Soudien10. Strategies for Transforming and Enlarging South Africa's Post-Apartheid Symbolic Landscape-Marc Howard Ross11. Invisible House, Invisible Slavery: Struggles of Public History at Independence National Historical Park-Charlene Mires12. Politicizing Chinese New Year Festivals: Cold War Politics, Transnational Conflicts, and Chinese America-Chiou-Ling Yeh13. Paddy, Shylock, and Sambo: Irish, Jewish, and African American Efforts to Ban Racial Ridicule on Stage and Screen-M. Alison KiblerEpilogue-Edward T. LinenthalList of ContributorsIndex

Marc Howard Ross is William Rand Kenan, Jr., Professor of Political Science at Bryn Mawr College. He is author or editor of seven books, including Cultural Contestation in Ethnic Conflict.

"[This volume's] strong comparative framework reflects both the careful scholarship of each author as well as the excellent editorial work of Marc Howard Ross. He has managed to elicit from this collection a drive and coherence that makes the entire book a pleasure to read."-Political Psychology

• Preface1. Cultural Contestation and the Symbolic Landscape: Politics by Other Means?-Marc Howard Ross2. The Rise and Fall of a Sacred Place: Ayodhya over Three Decades-Richard H. Davis3. Social Lives of the Dead: Contestation and Continuities in the Hawaiian Repatriation Context-Greg Johnson4. Flagging Peace: Struggles over Symbolic Landscape in the New Northern Ireland Dominic-Bryan Clifford Stevenson5. Conflict Transformation, Cultural Innovation, and Loyalist Identity in Northern Ireland-Lee A. Smithey6. Islamic Headscarves in Public Schools: Explaining France's Legal Restrictions-Elaine R. Thomas7. Minority Language Policy in France: Jacobinism, Cultural Pluralism, and Ethnoregional Identities-Britt Cartrite8. Symbols of Reconciliation or Instruments of Division? A Critical Look at New Monuments in South Africa-Sabine Marschall9. Emerging Multiculturalisms in South African Museum Practice: Some Examples from the Western Cape-Crain Soudien10. Strategies for Transforming and Enlarging South Africa's Post-Apartheid Symbolic Landscape-Marc Howard Ross11. Invisible House, Invisible Slavery: Struggles of Public History at Independence National Historical Park-Charlene Mires12. Politicizing Chinese New Year Festivals: Cold War Politics, Transnational Conflicts, and Chinese America-Chiou-Ling Yeh13. Paddy, Shylock, and Sambo: Irish, Jewish, and African American Efforts to Ban Racial Ridicule on Stage and Screen-M. Alison KiblerEpilogue-Edward T. LinenthalList of ContributorsIndex

Marc Howard Ross is William Rand Kenan, Jr., Professor of Political Science at Bryn Mawr College. He is author or editor of seven books, including Cultural Contestation in Ethnic Conflict.

"[This volume's] strong comparative framework reflects both the careful scholarship of each author as well as the excellent editorial work of Marc Howard Ross. He has managed to elicit from this collection a drive and coherence that makes the entire book a pleasure to read."-Political Psychology

• Preface1. Cultural Contestation and the Symbolic Landscape: Politics by Other Means?-Marc Howard Ross2. The Rise and Fall of a Sacred Place: Ayodhya over Three Decades-Richard H. Davis3. Social Lives of the Dead: Contestation and Continuities in the Hawaiian Repatriation Context-Greg Johnson4. Flagging Peace: Struggles over Symbolic Landscape in the New Northern Ireland Dominic-Bryan Clifford Stevenson5. Conflict Transformation, Cultural Innovation, and Loyalist Identity in Northern Ireland-Lee A. Smithey6. Islamic Headscarves in Public Schools: Explaining France's Legal Restrictions-Elaine R. Thomas7. Minority Language Policy in France: Jacobinism, Cultural Pluralism, and Ethnoregional Identities-Britt Cartrite8. Symbols of Reconciliation or Instruments of Division? A Critical Look at New Monuments in South Africa-Sabine Marschall9. Emerging Multiculturalisms in South African Museum Practice: Some Examples from the Western Cape-Crain Soudien10. Strategies for Transforming and Enlarging South Africa's Post-Apartheid Symbolic Landscape-Marc Howard Ross11. Invisible House, Invisible Slavery: Struggles of Public History at Independence National Historical Park-Charlene Mires12. Politicizing Chinese New Year Festivals: Cold War Politics, Transnational Conflicts, and Chinese America-Chiou-Ling Yeh13. Paddy, Shylock, and Sambo: Irish, Jewish, and African American Efforts to Ban Racial Ridicule on Stage and Screen-M. Alison KiblerEpilogue-Edward T. LinenthalList of ContributorsIndex