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The invention of ethnicity
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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 ...
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.
Details
- Creator
- edited by Werner Sollors
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2023
- Series
- Physical Details
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- xx, 294 p
- ISBNs
- 9780197724699, 0197724698, 9780198021490, 0198021496, 9781280440076, 1280440074, 9781601296665, 1601296665, 0195045890, 0195050479
- OCLC
- ocn476013676, on1410955596
- Previously issued in print: New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Intro -- Contents -- On the Fourth of July in Sitka -- Introduction: The Invention of Ethnicity -- An American Writer -- A Plea for Fictional Histories and Old-Time "Jewesses -- Ethnicity as Festive Culture: Nineteenth-Century German America on Parade -- Defining the Race 1890-1930 -- Anzia Yezierska and the Making of an Ethnic American Self -- Deviant Girls and Dissatisfied Women: A Sociologist's Tale -- Ethnic Trilogies: A Genealogical and Generational Poetics -- Blood in the Marketplace: The Business of Family in the Godfather Narratives -- Comping for Count Basie -- Is Ethnicity Obsolete? -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z