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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext "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 SOCIOLOGYEthnicity and Race: Making Identities in a Changing World, Second Edition uses examples and extended case studies from all over the world to craft a compelling, even-handed account of the power and persistence of ethnicity and race in the contemporary world. Known for its conceptual clarity, world-historical scope, and fair-minded treatment of these oft controversial topics, this updated and expanded edition retains all of the core elements and constructionist insights of the original. Inhaltsverzeichnis About the Authors Foreword Preface to the 2nd Edition Preface 1. 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 2. Mapping the Terrain: Definitions The Definition of Ethnicity The Definition of Race Ethnicity and Race Nationalism and Belonging Conclusion 3. Fixed or Fluid? Alternative Views of Ethnicity and Race The Assimilationist Assumption Primordialism Circumstantialism Primordialism and Circumstantialism Compared Conclusion 4. A Constructionist Approach The Construction of Ethnic and Racial Identities The Nature of Ethnic and Racial Bonds The Reconstruction of Circumstances The Logic of Ethnic and Racial Construction Reframing Intergroup Relations Conclusion 5. 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 Chapter 6. Construction Sites: Contextual Factors in the Making of Identities Critical Sites Politics Labor Markets Residential Space Social Institutions Culture Daily Experience Summarizing Contextual Factors
