Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-167) and index.
Introduction : the invention of (the concept of) ethnicity -- From the invention of race to the rise of the inbetween people, 1840-1924 -- Whiteness and the limits of the new environmentalism in the social sciences, 1895-1921 -- Inventing ethnicity in the context of race and caste, 1930-1945 -- Black ethnicity and the transformation of a concept, 1962-1972 -- Conclusion : toward a hybrid discourse of ethnicity.
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Shades of Difference introduces new perspectives on the definition of 'whiteness' in America, and makes an original contribution to the larger discussion of race through a detailed account of ethnicity's original meaning and its revaluation when later appropriated by the discourse of Black Nationalism in the 1960s and 70s.
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Shades of difference.
Ethnicity-- United States-- History.
Ethnicité-- États-Unis-- Histoire.
Ethnic relations.
Ethnicity.
Ethnische Beziehungen
Ethnische Identität.
Identität-- USA-- Geschichte 19. Jh.
Identität-- USA-- Geschichte 20. Jh.
Kulturelle Identität
Race relations.
Rasse-- Sozialwissenschaften-- USA-- Geschichte 19. Jh.
Rasse-- Sozialwissenschaften-- USA-- Geschichte 20. Jh.
Rassenbeziehung-- USA-- Geschichte 19. Jh.
Rassenbeziehung-- USA-- Geschichte 20. Jh.
SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Minority Studies.
Sozialwissenschaften-- Rasse-- USA-- Geschichte 19. Jh.
Sozialwissenschaften-- Rasse-- USA-- Geschichte 20. Jh.