Race & Ethnicity

Each chapter offers a sustained engagement with narrative theory and critical race theory as applied to ethnic American literature, exploring the interpretive possibilities of this critical intersection. Taken as a whole, these chapters demonstrate some of the many ways that the formal study of narrative can help us better understand the racial/ethnic tensions of narrative fictions. Similarly, the essays advance the tools of narrative theory by redeploying or redesigning those tools to better account for and articulate the ways that race and ethnicity are formal components of narrative as well as thematic issues. Recognizing that racial/ethnic issues and tensions are often contextualized geographically, this volume focuses on narratives associated with various racial and ethnic communities in the United States. By engaging with new developments in narrative theory and critical race studies, this volume demonstrates the vitality of using the tools of narratology and critical race theory together to understand how race influences narrative and how narratology illuminates a reading of race in ethnic American literature"--

An introduction to the study of minority groups in the United States -- Diversity in the United States : questions and concepts -- Assimilation and pluralism : from immigrants to white ethnics -- Prejudice and discrimination -- The evolution of dominant-minority relations in the United States -- The development of dominant-minority group relations in preindustrial America : the origins of slavery -- Industrialization and dominant-minority relations : from slavery to segregation and the coming of postindustrial society -- Understanding dominant-minority relations in the United States today

Race and Ethnicity in Americaexamines patterns and trends in racial and ethnic inequality over recent decades. John Iceland shows how color lines have generally softened over time in the United States but deep-seated inequalities remain-generally, blacks, American Indians, and some Hispanics fare less well than others

This book offers a historical and comparative overview of the evolution of racial classifications in the United States and in Hispanic/Latino countries in the Western Hemisphere and Caribbean

nderstanding race, racism, and the racial hierarchy -- Immigration, assimilation, ethnicity, and race -- Prejudice and stereotyping -- Discrimination and institutional racism -- Interracial intimacies -- Race in a global context