Ethnic Project - Transforming Racial Fiction Into Ethnic Factions

Zusatztext "Vilna Bashi Treitler masterfully weaves race and ethnicity into a single historical narrative that reveals the ugly reality of exploitation and stratification that has always undergirded American society." Informationen zum Autor Vilna Bashi Treitler is Professor of Sociology at The Graduate Center and Professor of Black and Hispanic Studies at Baruch College, CUNY. She is the author of Survival of the Knitted: Immigrant Social Networks in a Stratified World (Stanford, 2007). Klappentext Vilna Bashi Treitler is Professor of Sociology at The Graduate Center and Professor of Black and Hispanic Studies at Baruch College, CUNY. She is the author of Survival of the Knitted: Immigrant Social Networks in a Stratified World (Stanford, 2007). Zusammenfassung Americans believe strongly in their ethnicity and use it in self-promoting ways. The Ethnic Project shows how destructive ethnic thinking can be in a society that has not let go of racism.

Product details

• Authors: Vilna Bashi Treitler, Bashi Treitler Vilna
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.08.2013
• EAN: 9780804757720
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-5772-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Stanford Studies in Comparativ; Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and Ethnicity; Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and Ethnicity; Stanford Studies in Comparativ
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology