Open AccessWhite Ethnic: A Social Concept
Author(s) -
Joseph M. Conforti
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
ethnic studies review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2576-2915
pISSN - 1555-1881
DOI - 10.1525/esr.2000.23.1.81
Subject(s) - ethnic group , white (mutation) , immigration , sociology , context (archaeology) , civil rights , term (time) , race (biology) , gender studies , ethnic discrimination , ethnic history , social science , social psychology , political science , psychology , anthropology , history , law , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics , gene
Why such a term as white ethnic or ethnic developed and what purposes it served guides this inquiry. Its origins in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement in a context of American immigration history are explored together with its adoption as a sociological concept. A survey of textbooks most likely to use such a term, particularly texts concerning race and ethnicity, intergroup relations, and sociology of minorities, together with related literature illustrates both its usage and the basis of such usage.
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