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The Invention of ethnicity

Author: Werner Sollors
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1991 ©1989.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Werner Sollors
ISBN: 0195050479 9780195050479 0195045890 9780195045895
OCLC Number: 25225484
Description: xx, 294 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents: On the fourth of July in Sitka / Ishmael Reed --
Introduction: the invention of ethnicity / Werner Sollors --
An American writer / Richard Rodriguez --
A plea for fictional histories and old-time "Jewesses" / Alide Cagidemetrio --
Ethnicity as festive culture: nineteenth-century German America on parade / Kathleen Neils Conzen --
Defining the race 1890-1930 / Judith Stein --
Anzia Yezierska and the making of an ethnic American self / Mary V. Dearborn --
Deviant girls and dissatisfied women: a sociologist's tale / Carla Cappetti --
Ethnic trilogies: a genealogical and generational poetics / William Boelhower --
Blood in the marketplace: the business of family in the Godfather narratives / Thomas J. Ferraro --
Comping for Count Basie / Albert Murray --
"Is ethnicity obsolete?" / Ishmael Reed, Shawn Wong, Bob Callahan, Andrew Hope.
Responsibility: edited by Werner Sollors.

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