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Ethnicity and Race Making Identities in a Changing World

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ISBN-10: 1412941105

ISBN-13: 9781412941105

Edition: 2nd 2007 (Revised)

Authors: Stephen E. Cornell, Douglas Hartmann

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Ethnicity and Race: Making Identities in a Changing World, Second Edition uses examples and extended case studies from all over the world to craft a compelling, even-handed account of the power and persistence of ethnicity and race in the contemporary world. Known for its conceptual clarity, world-historical scope, and fair-minded treatment of these oft controversial topics, this updated and expanded edition retains all of the core elements and constructionist insights of the original. New to the Second Edition: Provides new concrete examples from around the world: Dozens of new examples have been added, including extended case studies of ethnic/identity construction in the former…    
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List price: $151.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/15/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Stephen Cornell teaches sociology at the University of California, San Diego. His Ph.D. is from the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Return of the Native: American Indian Political Resurgence, coeditor of What Can Tribes Do? Strategies and Institutions in American Indian Economic Development, and author of numerous academic articles on collective identity, intergroup relations, and related topics

Douglas Hartmann (Ph.D. University of California, San Diego, 1997) is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota.nbsp; Much of his research focuses on the intersections of race and sports in American culture. Hartmann is the author of Race, Culture, and the Revolt of the Black Athlete: The 1968 African American Olympic Protests and Their Aftermath (University of Chicago Press, 2003), and is currently working on a project that uses midnight basketball as a case study of sports-based risk prevention in the contemporary United States.nbsp; He is also one of the principle investigators of the "American Mosaic Project," an ongoing, multi-method study of race, religion and…    

About the Authors
Foreword
Preface to the 2nd Edition
Preface
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 Reconstruction of Circumstances
The Logic of Ethnic and Racial Construction
Reframing Intergroup Relations
Conclusion
Case Studies in Identity Construction
The Power of Circumstances: Blacks and Indians in the United States
Between Assertion and Assignment: Chinese Americans in Mississippi
From Thick Ethnicity to Thin: German Americans
Constructed Primordiality and Ethnic Power: Afrikaners in South Africa
From Thin Ethnicity to Thick: Basketball and War in the Former Yugoslavia
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