Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-167) and index.
Contents
Introduction : the invention of (the concept of) ethnicity -- From the invention of race to the rise of the inbetween people, 1840-1924 -- Whiteness and the limits of the new environmentalism in the social sciences, 1895-1921 -- Inventing ethnicity in the context of race and caste, 1930-1945 -- Black ethnicity and the transformation of a concept, 1962-1972 -- Conclusion : toward a hybrid discourse of ethnicity.
