Shades of difference
Subtitle: a history of ethnicity in America
By: Richard W. Rees.
Series: Perspectives on a multiracial America series
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Ethnicity -- United States -- History; United States -- Ethnic relations -- History; United States -- Race relations -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the invention of (the concept of) ethnicity; title: From the invention of race to the rise of the inbetween people, 1840-1924; title: Whiteness and the limits of the new environmentalism; title: Inventing ethnicity in the context of race and caste, 1930-1945; title: Black ethnicity and the transformation of a concept, 1962-1972; title: Conclusion : toward a hybrid discourse of ethnicity.