Shades of Difference : A History of Ethnicity in America

Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Invention of (the Concept of) Ethnicity 1 1 From the Invention of Race to the Rise of the Inbetween Peoples, 1840-1924 30 2 Whiteness and the Limits of the New Environmentalism in the Social Sciences, 1895-1921 65 3 Inventing Ethnicity in the Context of Race and Caste, 1930-1945 86 4 Black Ethnicity and the Transformation of a Concept, 1962-1972 115 Conclusion: Toward a Hybrid Discourse of Ethnicity 150 Works Cited 159 Index 169 About the Author 177