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The ethnic project : transforming racial fiction into ethnic factions /

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 th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bashi Treitler, Vilna
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2013.
Colección:Stanford studies in comparative race and ethnicity.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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.