Associate editor's area note / Jeffrey J. Arnett -- Editor's note -- Identity : now you see it; now you don't / Andrew C. Okolie -- Social change and the development and co-optation of a Black antisystemic identity ; the case of Rastafarians in Jamaica / Charles Reavis Price -- Racial identity, the apartheid state, and the limits of political mobilization and democratic reform in South Africa : the case of the University of the Western Cape / Gregory M. Anderson -- Violent ethnocentrism : revisiting the economic interpretation of the expulsion of the Ugandan Asians / Meir Amor -- Appropriation of difference : state and the construction of ethnic identities in Nigeria / Andrew C. Okolie