The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fiction Into Ethnic Factions

by Vilna Bashi Treitler

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804757720
• ISBN13: 9780804757720
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.9"