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In the Shadow of Race
Victoria Hattam
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Description for In the Shadow of Race
Paperback. Race in United States has been associated with inequality. This book aims to recover history of this distinction and the divisive politics it engenders. It locates origins of ethnicity in New York Zionist movement of early 1900s. It argues that Jewish activists identified as ethnics as a way of defending immigrant difference as distinct from race. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 colour plates, 9 line drawings, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 255 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
Race in the United States has long been associated with heredity and inequality while ethnicity has been linked to language and culture. "The Shadow of Race" recovers the history of this entrenched distinction and the divisive politics it engenders. Victoria Hattam locates the origins of ethnicity in the New York Zionist movement of the early 1900s. In a major revision of widely held assumptions, she argues that Jewish activists identified as ethnics not as a means of assimilating and becoming white, but rather as a way of defending immigrant difference as distinct from race - rooted in culture rather than ... Read more
Race in the United States has long been associated with heredity and inequality while ethnicity has been linked to language and culture. "The Shadow of Race" recovers the history of this entrenched distinction and the divisive politics it engenders. Victoria Hattam locates the origins of ethnicity in the New York Zionist movement of the early 1900s. In a major revision of widely held assumptions, she argues that Jewish activists identified as ethnics not as a means of assimilating and becoming white, but rather as a way of defending immigrant difference as distinct from race - rooted in culture rather than ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226319230
SKU
V9780226319230
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About Victoria Hattam
Victoria Hattam is associate professor of political science at the New School for Social Research.
Reviews for In the Shadow of Race
"Elegantly structured and persuasively argued, In the Shadow of Race does a brilliant job of showing how the constitutive relationship between race and ethnicity formed over time rather than at a single moment. Victoria Hattam's analysis of this dynamic is subtle and engaging, the product of a finely researched and well-thought-out project." - Desmond King, University of Oxford"