Shades of difference : a history of ethnicity in America /

Rees, Richard W., 1962-

Shades of difference : a history of ethnicity in America / Richard W. Rees. - Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2007. - ix, 176 p. ; 24 cm. - Perspectives on a multiracial America series .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-167) and index.

Introduction : the invention of (the concept of) ethnicity -- From the invention of race to the rise of the inbetween people, 1840-1924 -- Whiteness and the limits of the new environmentalism in the social sciences, 1895-1921 -- Inventing ethnicity in the context of race and caste, 1930-1945 -- Black ethnicity and the transformation of a concept, 1962-1972 -- Conclusion : toward a hybrid discourse of ethnicity.

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Ethnicity--History.--United States


United States--Ethnic relations--History.
United States--Race relations--History.

E 184.A1 / R426 2007