Theories of Ethnicity: A Classical Reader

Notes on the Contributors - PART 1: ETYMOLOGY AND PREFATORY REMARKS - 'Ethnic, Ethnical, Ethnicity, Ethnie, Ethnique': Entries from Oxford English Dictionary and Supplement, and Grand Robert - Ethnicity W.L.Warne r & P.S.Lunt - Prefatory Remarks - PART 2: ESSAYS - The Future American C.W.Chesnutt - On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings W.James - The Stranger and The Web of Group Affiliations G.Simmel - Ethnic Groups M.Weber - Democracy Versus the Melting-Pot: A Study of American Nationality H.M.Kallen - Trans-National America R.S.Bourne - The Problem of Generations K.Mannheim - Human Migration and the Marginal Man R.E.Park - Race Problems and Modern Society J.Toomer - Your Negroid and Indian Behaviour C.G.Jung - The Problem of the Third Generation Immigrant M.L.Hansen - We Are All Third Generation M.Mead - Reflections on the American Identity E.H.Erikson - American Immigrant Groups: Ethnic Identification and the Problem of Generations V.C.Nahirny & J.A.Fishman - Kinship, Nationality and Religion in American Culture: Toward a Definition of Kinship D.M.Schneider - Ethnic Groups and Boundaries F.Barth - Insiders and Outsiders: A Chapter in the Sociology of Knowledge R.K.Merton - The Lesson of Ethnicity A.Cohen - Ethnic Identity: Its Logical Foundations and Its Dysfunctions G.Devereux - Some Comments on the Anthropology of Ethnicity in the United States U.Hannerz - Symbolic Ethnicity: The Future of Ethnic Groups and Cultures in America H.J.Gans - Identifying Identity: A Semantic History P.Gleason - PART 3: CONCLUSION - Theory of American Ethnicity W.Sollors - Index