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making identities in a changing world

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An edition of Ethnicity and race (1997)

Ethnicity and race

making identities in a changing world

2nd ed.
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Cover of: Ethnicity and Race
Ethnicity and Race: Making Identities in a Changing World
2013, SAGE Publications, Incorporated
in English
Cover of: Ethnicity and race
Ethnicity and race: making identities in a changing world
2007, Pine Forge Press, an Imprint of Sage Publication, Pine Forge Press
in English - 2nd ed.
Cover of: Ethnicity and Race
Ethnicity and Race: Making Identities in a Changing World (Sociology for a New Century Series)
December 15, 2006, Pine Forge Press
Paperback in English - Second Edition edition
Cover of: Ethnicity and race
Ethnicity and race: making identities in a changing world
1998, Pine Forge Press
in English
Cover of: Ethnicity and Race
Ethnicity and Race: Making Identities in a Changing World (Sociology for a New Century Series)
July 22, 1997, Pine Forge Press
Paperback in English

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Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface to the second edition
Preface to the first edition
The puzzles of ethnicity and race
An unexpected persistence and power
A puzzling diversity of forms
Ethnicity and race as sociological topics
An outline of what follows
Mapping the terrain: definitions
The definition of ethnicity
The definition of race
Ethnicity and race
Nationalism and belonging
Conclusion
Fixed or fluid? Alternative views of ethnicity and race
The assimilationist assumption
Primordialism
Circumstantialism
Primordialism and circumstantialism compared
Conclusion
A constructionist approach
The construction of ethnic and racial identities
The nature of ethnic and racial bonds
The problem of authenticity
The reconstruction of circumstances
The logic of ethnic and racial construction
Reframing intergroup relations
Conclusion
Case studies in identity construction
Case 1. The power of circumstances: Blacks and Indians in the United States
Case 2. Between assertion and assignment: Chinese Americans in Mississippi
Case 3. From thick ethnicity to thin: German Americans
Case 4. Constructed primordiality and ethnic power: Afrikaners in South Africa
Case 5. From thin ethnicity to thick: basketball and war in the former Yugoslavia
Case 6. Race, culture, and belonging: who is France?
A comparison of cases
Conclusion
Construction sites: contextual factors in the making of identities
Critical sites
Politics
Labor markets
Residential space
Social institutions
Culture
Daily experience
Summarizing contextual factors
Conclusion
What they bring: group factors in the making of identities
Preexisting identities
Population size
Internal differentiation
Social capital
Human capital
Symbolic repertoires
Groups, contexts, and agendas
Conclusion
Making sense and making selves in a changing world
The impact of modernity
Mixing and multiplicity
Separation and consolidation
Making sense, making selves, making others
Conclusion
References
Index.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-293) and index.

Published in
Thousand Oaks, Calif
Series
Sociology for a new century

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
305.8
Library of Congress
HT1521 .C64 2007, HT1521.C64 2007

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxi, 311 p. :
Number of pages
311

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL17968588M
Internet Archive
ethnicityracemak0000corn_n2g1
ISBN 10
1412941105
ISBN 13
9781412941105
LCCN
2006028317
OCLC/WorldCat
71189840
Goodreads
991112

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