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Rees, Richard William.

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Transforming ethnicity: A history of the concept in the context of American whiteness and black power.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Transforming ethnicity: A history of the concept in the context of American whiteness and black power./
Author:	Rees, Richard William.
Description:	294 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-04, Section: A, page: 1309.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-04A.
Subject:	American Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoeng/servlet/advanced?query=3088286

Transforming ethnicity: A history of the concept in the context of American whiteness and black power.
Rees, Richard William.

Transforming ethnicity: A history of the concept in the context of American whiteness and black power. - 294 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-04, Section: A, page: 1309.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Carnegie Mellon University, 2003.

This dissertation traces the origins and development of the concept of ethnicity in the United States. The central argument is that the concept is created from the relatively obscure word <italic>ethnic</italic> (previously a synonym for race) in order to resolve the ambiguous conceptual position southern, central, and eastern European Americans came to occupy in the discourse of the social sciences in the first three decades of the twentieth century. The confused status of these groups who arrived in the great waves of immigration in the late nineteenth century is a function of conflicting racial ideologies in American. The concept of ethnicity is created out of the developing discourses of cultural anthropology and the sociology of race relations, both of which opposed the biological determinism of race science with culturally based conceptions of group identities and differences. Ironically, however, both discourses also adopted race science's assumptions about the biological foundation of the black-white color line. This limitation lays the theoretical groundwork by which ethnicity is created exclusively and explicitly for certain European American groups. The concept resolves their ambiguous status by transforming their <italic>racial</italic> differences from Anglo-Saxon Americans into <italic> cultural</italic> variations within the white race. This sense of ethnicity would be maintained even until the “white ethnics” had largely assimilated and lost most of their “ethnic” differences in the post-World War Two period. The black movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and especially the discourse of black nationalism, however, would reconstruct and transform the meaning of the word into most of the ways we use it today. It is no longer exclusively white but may be used to refer to the identity of any distinct group; and it is no longer a transitional state understood as part of the process of assimilation but refers, on the contrary, to that quality which distinguishes a group from the dominant, or every other, group. This dissertation thus recommends specific ways in which the use of the concept of ethnicity should recall its complex historical development within the broader context of race and the color line.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017604
American Studies.

Transforming ethnicity: A history of the concept in the context of American whiteness and black power.
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