Ethnicity and race
Subtitle: making identities in a changing world
By: Stephen Cornell, Douglas Hartmann.
Contributors: Hartmann, Douglas.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Sociology for a new century
Publisher: Pine Forge Press, an Imprint of Sage Publication; Pine Forge Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9781412941105
Subjects: Race; Ethnicity; Minorities; Group identity
Description: Resource added for the Psychology (includes Sociology) 108091 courses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-293) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Preface to the second edition; title: Preface to the first edition; title: The puzzles of ethnicity and race; title: An unexpected persistence and power; title: A puzzling diversity of forms; title: Ethnicity and race as sociological topics; title: An outline of what follows; title: Mapping the terrain: definitions; title: The definition of ethnicity; title: The definition of race; title: Ethnicity and race; title: Nationalism and belonging; title: Conclusion; title: Fixed or fluid? Alternative views of ethnicity and race; title: The assimilationist assumption; title: Primordialism; title: Circumstantialism; title: Primordialism and circumstantialism compared; title: Conclusion; title: A constructionist approach; title: The construction of ethnic and racial identities; title: The nature of ethnic and racial bonds; title: The problem of authenticity; title: The reconstruction of circumstances; title: The logic of ethnic and racial construction; title: Reframing intergroup relations; title: Conclusion; title: Case studies in identity construction; title: Case 1. The power of circumstances: Blacks and Indians in the United States; title: Case 2. Between assertion and assignment: Chinese Americans in Mississippi; title: Case 3. From thick ethnicity to thin: German Americans; title: Case 4. Constructed primordiality and ethnic power: Afrikaners in South Africa; title: Case 5. From thin ethnicity to thick: basketball and war in the former Yugoslavia; title: Case 6. Race, culture, and belonging: who is France?; title: A comparison of cases; title: Conclusion; title: Construction sites: contextual factors in the making of identities; title: Critical sites; title: Politics; title: Labor markets; title: Residential space; title: Social institutions; title: Culture; title: Daily experience; title: Summarizing contextual factors; title: Conclusion; title: What they bring: group factors in the making of identities; title: Preexisting identities; title: Population size; title: Internal differentiation; title: Social capital; title: Human capital; title: Symbolic repertoires; title: Groups, contexts, and agendas; title: Conclusion; title: Making sense and making selves in a changing world; title: The impact of modernity; title: Mixing and multiplicity; title: Separation and consolidation; title: Making sense, making selves, making others; title: Conclusion; title: References; title: Index.