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Foreword xi
Preface to the Second Edition xiii
Preface to the First Edition xvii
Acknowledgments xxi
The Puzzles of Ethnicity and Race 1
An Unexpected Persistence and Power 5
A Puzzling Diversity of Forms 10
Ethnicity and Race as Sociological Topics 12
An Outline of What Follows 13
Mapping the Terrain: Definitions 15
The Definition of Ethnicity 15
The Definition of Race 21
Ethnicity and Race 26
Nationalism and Belonging 35
Conclusion 38
Fixed or Fluid? Alternative Views of Ethnicity and Race 41
The Assimilationist Assumption 44
Primordialism 51
Circumstantialism 58
Primordialism and Circumstantialism Compared 70
Conclusion 71
A Constructionist Approach 75
The Construction of Ethnic and Racial Identities 76
The Nature of Ethnic and Racial Bonds 89
The Problem of Authenticity 95
The Reconstruction of Circumstances 98
The Logic of Ethnic and Racial Construction 100
Reframing Intergroup Relations 103
Conclusion 105
Case Studies in Identity Construction 107
The Power of Circumstances: Blacks and Indians in the United States 107
Between Assertion and Assignment: Chinese Americans in Mississippi 119
From Thick Ethnicity to Thin: German Americans 126
Constructed Primordiality and Ethnic Power: Afrikaners in South Africa 135
From Thin Ethnicity to Thick: Basketball and War in the Former Yugoslavia 146
Race, Culture, and Belonging: Who Is France? 153
A Comparison of Cases 163
Conclusion 166
Construction Sites: Contextual Factors in the Making of Identities 169
Critical Sites 170
Politics 170
Labor Markets 178
Residential Space 182
Social Institutions 186
Culture 191
Daily Experience 199
Summarizing Contextual Factors 204
Conclusion 208
What They Bring: Group Factors in the Making of Identities 211
Preexisting Identities 212
Population Size 215
Internal Differentiation 218
Social Capital 228
Human Capital 234
Symbolic Repertoires 236
Groups, Contexts, and Agendas 243
Conclusion 244
Making Sense and Making Selves in a Changing World 247
The Impact of Modernity 247
Mixing and Mutiplicity 250
Separation and Consolidation 258
Making Sense, Making Selves, Making Others 262
Conclusion 264
References 267
Index 295
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Robert Hartwood
reviewed Ethnicity and Race: Making Identities in a Changing World (Sociology for a New Century Series) on January 25, 2012
Ethnicity and Race
I read this book this semester as required by my Ethnicity and Nationalism course. This is a basic look at identities and the construction of those identities, how they're shaped and how it affects not only the group but the society and world around them with the ever-growing presence of globalization.
Race and ethnicity are, of course, the focal point. As a social construct (and therefore fake in any biological test), it briefly discussed how certain groups dealt with the change of their identities through migration and colonization and so forth--how new identities were assigned and then asserted.
I enjoyed this book. As an introductory text, it served it's purpose. I would have liked a bit more depth, but this is for an upper-level general ed class. I know it had me thinking, and I could tell how it began to shape the views of my fellow classmates. The most interesting part for me was learning that prominent early 20th century sociologists such as Robert Park predicted the end of the concepts of race and ethnicity as the world began to globalize and modernize, but this did not happen. Even with intermarriage and global migration, boundaries are still enforced. We don't melt, the authors assert, but our need for compartmentalization and an identity all our own (which by definition creates an "other," a "them"), serves to reinforce boundaries as well. Some have melted, but not enough. The question is whether these sociologists' predictions will simply take more time to materialize, or if they never will. I tend to think there is a strong argument for both answers.
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Add Ethnicity and Race: Making Identities in a Changing World (Sociology for a New Century Series), This book is very well written and clearly organized throughout. It is pitched at upper-level undergraduate and graduate-level race and ethnicity students...in sum, this is an important book, highly recommended to students and faculty alike. The autho, Ethnicity and Race: Making Identities in a Changing World (Sociology for a New Century Series) to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add Ethnicity and Race: Making Identities in a Changing World (Sociology for a New Century Series), This book is very well written and clearly organized throughout. It is pitched at upper-level undergraduate and graduate-level race and ethnicity students...in sum, this is an important book, highly recommended to students and faculty alike. The autho, Ethnicity and Race: Making Identities in a Changing World (Sociology for a New Century Series) to your collection on WonderClub |
