Race or Ethnicity? : : On Black and Latino Identity / / ed. by Jorge J. E. Gracia.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Alcoff, Linda Martin,; Appiah, Kwame Anthony,; Bernasconi, Robert,; Corlett, J. Angelo,; Garcia, J. L. A.,; Gracia, Jorge J. E.,; McGary, Howard,; Mendieta, Eduardo,; Nuccetelli, Susana,; Shockley, Kenneth,; Vacano, Diego A. Von,; Zack, Naomi,
• HerausgeberIn: Gracia, Jorge J. E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

"What is race? What is ethnicity? Should we think of them as identities? Can they be effectively individuated? How are they related? How do the relations between them influence pressing issues concerned with social identity, gender, racism, assimilation, exploitation, justice, the law, and publ...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Contributors
• Preface
• Race or Ethnicity? An Introduction
• PART I. Racial and Ethnic Identity
• 1. Does Truth Matter to Identity?
• 2. Racial and Ethnic Identity?
• 3. Individuation of Racial and Ethnic Groups: The Problems of Circularity and Demarcation
• 4. Ethnicity, Race, and the Importance if Gender
• 5. Ethnic Race: Revisiting Alain Locke's Neglected Proposal
• 6. What Is an Ethnic Group? Against Social Functionalism
• PART II: Racism,Justice, and Public Policy
• 7. Racial Assimilation and the Dilemma of Racially Defined Institutions
• 8. Comparative Race, Comparative Racisms
• 9. Recognizing the Exploited
• 10. Racial Justice, Latinos, and the Supreme Court: The Role of Law and Affect in Social Change
• 11.Race, Ethnicity, and Public Policy
• 12.Race and Political Theory: Lessons from Latin America
• Bibliography
• Index