03562nam 2200625Ia 450 991078731190332120230126210508.00-8047-8728-X10.1515/9780804787284(CKB)2670000000397906(SSID)ssj0000950062(PQKBManifestationID)12470403(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000950062(PQKBWorkID)11003303(PQKB)11238521(MiAaPQ)EBC1324242(DE-B1597)563853(DE-B1597)9780804787284(Au-PeEL)EBL1324242(CaPaEBR)ebr10739139(OCoLC)857070523(OCoLC)1198931723(EXLCZ)99267000000039790620130501d2013 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe ethnic project[electronic resource] transforming racial fiction into ethnic factions /Vilna Bashi TreitlerStanford, Calif. Stanford University Press2013xi, 225 pStanford Studies in Comparative Race and EthnicityBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8047-5771-2 0-8047-5772-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --TABLE OF CONTENTS --ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --chapter 1. RACISM AND ETHNIC MYTHS --chapter 2. HOW ETHNIC AND RACIAL STRUCTURES OPERATE --chapter 3. ETHNIC WINNERS AND LOSERS --chapter 4. THE IRISH, CHINESE, ITALIANS, AND JEWS --chapter 5. THE NATIVE AMERICANS, MEXICANS, AND AFRO-CARIBBEANS --chapter 6. AFRICAN AMERICANS AND THE FAILED ETHNIC PROJECT --chapter 7. THE FUTURE OF U.S. ETHNORACISM --NOTES --INDEXRace is a known fiction—there is no genetic marker that indicates someone's race—yet the social stigma of race endures. In the United States, ethnicity is often positioned as a counterweight to race, and we celebrate our various hyphenated-American identities. But Vilna Bashi Treitler argues that we do so at a high cost: ethnic thinking simply perpetuates an underlying racism. In The Ethnic Project, Bashi Treitler considers the ethnic history of the United States from the arrival of the English in North America through to the present day. Tracing the histories of immigrant and indigenous groups—Irish, Chinese, Italians, Jews, Native Americans, Mexicans, Afro-Caribbean's, and African Americans—she shows how each negotiates America's racial hierarchy, aiming to distance themselves from the bottom and align with the groups already at the top. But in pursuing these "ethnic projects" these groups implicitly accept and perpetuate a racial hierarchy, shoring up rather than dismantling race and racism. Ultimately, The Ethnic Project shows how dangerous ethnic thinking can be in a society that has not let go of racial thinking.EthnicityUnited StatesHistoryRacismUnited StatesHistoryRaceSocial aspectsUnited StatesHistoryUnited StatesEthnic relationsHistoryEthnicityHistory.RacismHistory.RaceSocial aspectsHistory.305.800973Bashi Treitler Vilna1508310MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910787311903321The ethnic project3739654UNINA