Ethnicity and race : making identities in a changing world / Stephen Cornell, Douglas Hartmann.

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Ethnicity and Race: Making Identities in a Changing World, Second Edition uses examples and extended case studies from all over the world to craft a compelling, even-handed account of the power and persistence of ethnicity and race in the contemporary world. Known for its conceptual clarity, world-h...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Sociology for a new century.
Main Author: Cornell, Stephen E. (Stephen Ellicott), 1948-
Other Authors: Hartmann, Douglas
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Pine Forge Press, an Imprint of Sage Publication, [2007], ©2007.
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Sociology for a new century.
Subjects:
Race.
Ethnicity.
Minorities.
Group identity.
Ethnische Gruppe.
Ethnizität.
Identität.
Minderheit.
Nationale Minderheit.
Physical Description:xxi, 311 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Preface to the second edition
  • Preface to the first edition
  • The puzzles of ethnicity and race
  • An unexpected persistence and power
  • A puzzling diversity of forms
  • Ethnicity and race as sociological topics
  • An outline of what follows
  • Mapping the terrain: definitions
  • The definition of ethnicity
  • The definition of race
  • Ethnicity and race
  • Nationalism and belonging
  • Conclusion
  • Fixed or fluid? Alternative views of ethnicity and race
  • The assimilationist assumption
  • Primordialism
  • Circumstantialism
  • Primordialism and circumstantialism compared
  • Conclusion
  • A constructionist approach
  • The construction of ethnic and racial identities
  • The nature of ethnic and racial bonds
  • The problem of authenticity
  • The reconstruction of circumstances
  • The logic of ethnic and racial construction
  • Reframing intergroup relations
  • Conclusion
  • Case studies in identity construction
  • Case 1. The power of circumstances: Blacks and Indians in the United States
  • Case 2. Between assertion and assignment: Chinese Americans in Mississippi
  • Case 3. From thick ethnicity to thin: German Americans
  • Case 4. Constructed primordiality and ethnic power: Afrikaners in South Africa
  • Case 5. From thin ethnicity to thick: basketball and war in the former Yugoslavia
  • Case 6. Race, culture, and belonging: who is France?
  • A comparison of cases
  • Conclusion
  • Construction sites: contextual factors in the making of identities
  • Critical sites
  • Politics
  • Labor markets
  • Residential space
  • Social institutions
  • Culture
  • Daily experience
  • Summarizing contextual factors
  • Conclusion
  • What they bring: group factors in the making of identities
  • Preexisting identities
  • Population size
  • Internal differentiation
  • Social capital
  • Human capital
  • Symbolic repertoires
  • Groups, contexts, and agendas
  • Conclusion
  • Making sense and making selves in a changing world
  • The impact of modernity
  • Mixing and multiplicity
  • Separation and consolidation
  • Making sense, making selves, making others
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Index.