Ethnicity and Race

Stephen Cornell is professor of sociology and of public administration and policy at The University of Arizona, where he also directs the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy.  His Ph.D. is from the University of Chicago.  He taught at Harvard University for nine years and at the University of California, San Diego for nine more before joining the Arizona faculty in 1998.  He has written widely on ethnicity and race and on issues involving indigenous peoples in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Douglas Hartmann (Ph.D. University of California, San Diego, 1997) is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota.  Much of his research focuses on the intersections of race and sports in American culture. Hartmann is the author of Race, Culture, and the Revolt of the Black Athlete: The 1968 African American Olympic Protests and Their Aftermath (University of Chicago Press, 2003), and is currently working on a project that uses midnight basketball as a case study of sports-based risk prevention in the contemporary United States.  He is also one of the principle investigators of the “American Mosaic Project,” an ongoing, multi-method study of race, religion and diversity funded by the Minneapolis-based Edelstein Family Foundation.

"This book is very well written and clearly organized throughout.  It is pitched at upper-level undergraduate and graduate-level race and ethnicity students...in sum, this is an important book, highly recommended to students and faculty alike.  The authors draw extensively from classic and contemporary sociological theory throughout the text and maintain a transnational focus in each and every chapter."  —TEACHING SOCIOLOGY

• About the AuthorsForewordPreface to the 2nd EditionPreface1. The Puzzles Of Ethnicity And RaceAn Unexpected Persistence and PowerA Puzzling Diversity of FormsEthnicity and Race as Sociological TopicsAn Outline of What Follows2. Mapping the Terrain: DefinitionsThe Definition of EthnicityThe Definition of RaceEthnicity and RaceNationalism and BelongingConclusion3. Fixed or Fluid? Alternative Views of Ethnicity and RaceThe Assimilationist AssumptionPrimordialismCircumstantialismPrimordialism and Circumstantialism ComparedConclusion4. A Constructionist ApproachThe Construction of Ethnic and Racial IdentitiesThe Nature of Ethnic and Racial BondsThe Reconstruction of CircumstancesThe Logic of Ethnic and Racial ConstructionReframing Intergroup RelationsConclusion5. Case Studies in Identity ConstructionCase 1. The Power of Circumstances: Blacks and Indians in the United StatesCase 2. Between Assertion and Assignment: Chinese Americans in MississippiCase 3. From Thick Ethnicity to Thin: German AmericansCase 4. Constructed Primordiality and Ethnic Power: Afrikaners in South AfricaCase 5. From Thin Ethnicity to Thick: Basketball and War in the Former YugoslaviaCase 6. Race, Culture, and Belonging: Who Is France?A Comparison of CasesConclusionChapter 6. Construction Sites: Contextual Factors in the Making of IdentitiesCritical SitesPoliticsLabor MarketsResidential SpaceSocial InstitutionsCultureDaily ExperienceSummarizing Contextual FactorsConclusionChapter 7. What They Bring: Group Factors in the Making of IdentitiesPreexisting IdentitiesPopulation SizeInternal DifferentiationSocial CapitalHuman CapitalSymbolic RepertoiresGroups, Contexts, and AgendasConclusionChapter 8. Making Sense and Making Selves in a Changing WorldThe Impact of ModernityMixing and MultiplicitySeparation and ConsolidationMaking Sense, Making Selves, Making OthersConclusionReferences