Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Racism and Ethnic Myths; 2. How Ethnic and Racial Structures Operate; 3. Ethnic Winners and Losers; 4. The Irish, Chinese, Italians, and Jews: Successful Ethnic Projects; 5. The Native Americans, Mexicans, and Afro-Caribbeans: Struggling Ethnic Projects; 6. African Americans and the Failed Ethnic Project; 7. The Future of U.S. Ethnoracism; Notes; Index
Summary
Race is a known fiction-there is no genetic marker that indicates someone's race-yet the social stigma of race endures. In the United States, ethnicity is often positioned as a counterweight to race, and we celebrate our various hyphenated-American identities. But Vilna Bashi Treitler argues that we do so at a high cost: ethnic thinking simply perpetuates an underlying racism. In The Ethnic Project, Bashi Treitler considers the ethnic history of the United States from the arrival of the English in North America through to the present day. Tracing the histories of immigrant a
