The Invention of Ethnicity

Werner Sollors editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:10th Oct '91

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These essays chart the cultural constraints of `ethnicity' in American history and culture. Sollors' introductory essay sets the framework for the discussion of ethnicity and the individual essays cover a wide range of topics: Native American, Latin-American, historical Jewish, nineteenth-century American German, American Jewish, Italian, and Afro-American.

Sollors reminds us that the value of any social construction depends on how it is used, and these essays present cogent analyses of how our use of 'ethnicity' has evolved over the years....Deserves a reading by anyone who is involved in the creation, criticism and dissemination of American culture. * VIA: Voices in Italian Americana *

ISBN: 9780195050479

Dimensions: 210mm x 141mm x 22mm

Weight: 272g

320 pages