| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 176 pages) |
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Perspectives on a multiracial America series |
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Perspectives on a multiracial America series.
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| Contents |
Introduction : the invention of (the concept of) ethnicity -- From the invention of race to the rise of the inbetween people, 1840-1924 -- Whiteness and the limits of the new environmentalism in the social sciences, 1895-1921 -- Inventing ethnicity in the context of race and caste, 1930-1945 -- Black ethnicity and the transformation of a concept, 1962-1972 -- Conclusion : toward a hybrid discourse of ethnicity |
| Summary |
Annotation "From its prehistory in the biological theories of racial difference formulated in the 1800s to its current position in academic debate, Richard W. Rees investigates the diverse fields of scholarship from which the multifaceted understanding of the term ethnicity is derived. At the same time, Rees traces the broader historical forces that shaped the needs to which the concept of ethnicity responded and the social purposes to which it was applied. Centrally, he focuses upon the emergence of ethnicity in the early 1940s as a means of resolving contradictions and ambiguities in the racial status of European immigrants and its subsequent legacy and implications on race and caste. Shades of Difference introduces new perspectives on the definition of "whiteness" in America, and makes an original contribution to the larger discussion of race through a detailed account of ethnicity's original meaning and its revaluation when later appropriated by the discourse of Black Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s. Rees has produced a new analysis of the cultural and political history of ethnicity in America."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-167) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Ethnicity -- United States -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Ethnic relations
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Ethnicity
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Race relations
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Kulturelle Identität
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Ethnische Beziehungen
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Ethnische Identit̃t.
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Identit̃t -- USA -- Geschichte 19. Jh.
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Identit̃t -- USA -- Geschichte 20. Jh.
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Rasse -- Sozialwissenschaften -- USA -- Geschichte 19. Jh.
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Rasse -- Sozialwissenschaften -- USA -- Geschichte 20. Jh.
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Sozialwissenschaften -- Rasse -- USA -- Geschichte 19. Jh.
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Sozialwissenschaften -- Rasse -- USA -- Geschichte 20. Jh.
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Rassenbeziehung -- USA -- Geschichte 19. Jh.
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Rassenbeziehung -- USA -- Geschichte 20. Jh.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Ethnic relations -- History
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United States -- Race relations -- History
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United States
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USA
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Weisse -- USA -- Geschichte 19. Jh.
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Weisse -- USA -- Geschichte 20. Jh.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021678838 |
| ISBN |
9780742568532 |
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0742568539 |
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