Race in the United States has long been associated with heredity and inequality while ethnicity has been linked to language and culture. "In the Shadow of Race" recovers the history of this entrenched distinction and the divisive politics it engenders. Victoria Hattam locates the origins of ethnicity in the New York Zionist movement of the early 1900s. In a major revision of widely held assumptions, she argues that Jewish activists identified as ethnics not as a means of assimilating and becoming white, but rather as a way of defending immigrant difference as distinct from race rooted in...
Race in the United States has long been associated with heredity and inequality while ethnicity has been linked to language and culture. "In the Shado...
Political Creativity intervenes in the lively debate currently underway in the social sciences on institutional change. Editors Gerald Berk, Dennis C. Galvan, and Victoria Hattam, along with the contributors to the volume, show how institutions inevitably combine order and change, because formal rules and roles are always available for reconfiguration. Creative action is not the exception but the very process through which all political formations are built, promulgated and changed.
Drawing on the rich cache of antidualist theoretical traditions, from poststructuralism and...
Political Creativity intervenes in the lively debate currently underway in the social sciences on institutional change. Editors Gerald Berk,...
