Research Catalog

Title

Theories of ethnicity : a classical reader / edited by Werner Sollors.

Publication

Washington Square, New York : New York University Press, 1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

Sollors, Werner

Description

liii, 501 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

From the horrors of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia to debates over multiculturalism, ethnicity has, once again, become a global preoccupation. But what exactly do we mean when we speak of ethnicity? And when and how did ethnicity become such an important area of cultural expression and identification that people are ready to die and to kill for it? Gathering the work of some of our most original thinkers, this work provides, in one volume, the most probing and frequently cited considerations of such topics as the melting pot and pluralism, race and race problems, migration and marginality, assimilation and transnationalism, intermarriage, kinship and religion, boundary-construction and maintenance, and the important role of power relations for ethnicity. Contributors include such intellects as Max Weber, Carl Gustav Jung, Margaret Mead, Georg Simmel, Erik Erikson, Karl Mannheim, Fredrik Barth, and Herbert Gans. This work grounds much current sociological, cultural, and political research on ethnicity in a theoretical foundation that has heretofore been lacking, providing an historical base for ongoing and future work on this timely subject.

Subject

• Ethnicity
• Ethnic groups
• Ethnic relations

Note

• Articles originally published 1900-1985.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 'Ethnic, ethnical, ethnicity, ethnie, ethnique' : entries from Oxford English Dictionary (1961), Oxford English Dictionary and Supplement (1972) and Grand Robert (1985) -- Ethnicity / W. Lloyd Warner, Paul S. Lunt -- The future American / Charles W. Chesnutt -- On a certain blindness in human beings / William James -- The stranger ; The web of group affiliations / Georg Simmel -- Ethnic groups / Max Weber -- Democracy versus the melting pot : a study of American nationality / Horace M. Kallen -- Trans-national America / Randolph S. Bourne -- The problem of generations / Karl Mannheim --
• (cont.) Human migration and the marginal man / Robert E. Park -- Race problems and modern society / Jean Toomer -- Your Negroid and Indian behavior / Carl Gustav Jung -- The problem of the third generation immigrant / Marcus Lee Hansen -- We are all third generation / Margaret Mead -- Reflections on the American identity / Erik H. Erikson -- American immigrant groups : ethnic identification and the problem of generations / Vladimir C. Nahirny, Joshua A. Fishman -- Kinship, nationality and religion in American culture : toward a definition of kinship / David M. Schneider --
• (cont.) Ethnic groups and boundaries / Fredrik Barth -- Insiders and outsiders : a chapter in the sociology of knowledge / Robert K. Merton -- The lesson of ethnicity / Abner Cohen -- Ethnic identity : its logical foundations and its dysfunctions / George Devereux -- Some comments on the anthropology of ethnicity in the United States / Ulz Hannerz -- Symbolic ethnicity : the future of ethnic groups and culture in America / Herbert J. Gans -- Identifying identity : a semantic history / Philip Gleason.

ISBN

• 0814780342
• 0814780350 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^96012967^

OCLC

• 34471551
• SCSB-12838655

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library