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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813712303321

Autore

Zelinsky Wilbur <1921->

Titolo

The enigma of ethnicity : another American dilemma / / Wilbur Zelinsky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2001

ISBN

1-58729-339-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Disciplina

305.8/00973

305.80097

305.800973

Soggetti

Ethnicity - United States

Cultural pluralism - United States

United States Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-305) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; 1 Coming to Terms; 2 Expressions; 3 Heterolocalism; 4 Thinking about Identity; 5 Explicating the Age of Ethnicity; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In The Enigma of Ethnicity Wilbur Zelinsky draws upon more than half a century of exploring the cultural and social geography of an ever-changing North America to become both biographer and critic of the recent concept of ethnicity. In this ambitious and encyclopedic work, he examines ethnicity's definition, evolution, significance, implications, and entanglements with other phenomena as well as the mysteries of ethnic identity and performance.