transforming racial fiction into ethnic factions /
First Statement of Responsibility
Vilna Bashi Treitler.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Stanford, Calif. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Stanford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2013.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (xi, 225 pages)
SERIES
Series Title
Stanford studies in comparative race and ethnicity
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Racism and Ethnic Myths; 2. How Ethnic and Racial Structures Operate; 3. Ethnic Winners and Losers; 4. The Irish, Chinese, Italians, and Jews: Successful Ethnic Projects; 5. The Native Americans, Mexicans, and Afro-Caribbeans: Struggling Ethnic Projects; 6. African Americans and the Failed Ethnic Project; 7. The Future of U.S. Ethnoracism; Notes; Index.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Race is a known fiction-there is no genetic marker that indicates someone's race-yet the social stigma of race endures. In the United States, ethnicity is often positioned as a counterweight to race, and we celebrate our various hyphenated-American identities. But Vilna Bashi Treitler argues that we do so at a high cost: ethnic thinking simply perpetuates an underlying racism. In The Ethnic Project, Bashi Treitler considers the ethnic history of the United States from the arrival of the English in North America through to the present day. Tracing the histories of immigrant a.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Ethnic Project : Transforming Racial Fiction into Ethnic Factions.