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BL
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847751
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Bashi Treitler, Vilna.
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| Title & Author
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The ethnic project : : transforming racial fiction into ethnic factions /\ Vilna Bashi Treitler.
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| Publication Statement
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Stanford, Calif. :: Stanford University Press,, 2013.
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| Series Statement
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Stanford studies in comparative race and ethnicity
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1 online resource (xi, 225 pages)
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| ISBN
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080478728X
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: 9780804787284
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0804757712
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0804757720
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9780804757713
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9780804757720
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Racism and Ethnic Myths; 2. How Ethnic and Racial Structures Operate; 3. Ethnic Winners and Losers; 4. The Irish, Chinese, Italians, and Jews: Successful Ethnic Projects; 5. The Native Americans, Mexicans, and Afro-Caribbeans: Struggling Ethnic Projects; 6. African Americans and the Failed Ethnic Project; 7. The Future of U.S. Ethnoracism; Notes; Index.
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| Abstract
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Race 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 a.
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Ethnicity-- United States-- History.
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Race-- Social aspects-- United States-- History.
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Racism-- United States-- History.
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Ethnic relations.
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Ethnicity.
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Race-- Social aspects.
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Racism.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Discrimination Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Minority Studies.
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United States, Ethnic relations, History.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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305.800973
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E184.A1B273 2013eb
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