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ethnicity: an analysis of its dynamism and variability focusing on the Mexican/Anglo/Mexican American interface
Author(s) -
MELVILLE MARGARITA B.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1983.10.2.02a00040
Subject(s) - dynamism , ethnic group , acculturation , colonialism , outgroup , ascription , sociology , explanatory power , ingroups and outgroups , perspective (graphical) , gender studies , social psychology , geography , anthropology , linguistics , psychology , epistemology , mathematics , philosophy , archaeology , geometry
This paper focuses on the dynamism inherent in interethnic relationships and proposes an explanatory taxonomy. Three sets of binary variables are utilized: ingroup/outgroup ethnic ascription, symmetric/asymmetric power relations, and same/different specialized environments. Four types of interethnic relationships result: complementary, competitive, conflicting, and colonial. This scheme is then used to analyze the variability of the Mexican/Anglo/Mexican American interface from a historical perspective. [ethnicity, colonialism, Mexican Americans, conflict‐theory, acculturation]