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.
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Ethnicity and race : making identities in a changing world by Stephen E. Cornell. ISBN 9781412941105. Published by Pine Forge Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
