Ethnicity and Race : Making Identities in a Changing World

An evenhanded and provocative exploration that shows how the social constructions of race and ethnicity can both be imagined and at the same time be absolutely fundamental to social life and to one′s deepest sense of the self. Readers of this book will see everything from ethnic conflict in Eastern European cities to multiculturalism in U.S. schools with a fresh understanding and a sociological eye.

"I am enthusiastic about this book because I think it serves a series of needs which are not currently met by the publishing community: scholarly material which is neither diluted for an introductory mass market nor professional."

-- Jeffrey Chin, LeMoyne College (former Editor of Teaching Sociology)

Stephen Cornell is professor of sociology and of public administration and policy at The University of Arizona, where he also directs the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy.  His Ph.D. is from the University of Chicago.  He taught at Harvard University for nine years and at the University of California, San Diego for nine more before joining the Arizona faculty in 1998.  He has written widely on ethnicity and race and on issues involving indigenous peoples in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

Douglas Hartmann (Ph.D. University of California, San Diego, 1997) is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota.  Much of his research focuses on the intersections of race and sports in American culture. Hartmann is the author of Race, Culture, and the Revolt of the Black Athlete: The 1968 African American Olympic Protests and Their Aftermath (University of Chicago Press, 2003), and is currently working on a project that uses midnight basketball as a case study of sports-based risk prevention in the contemporary United States.  He is also one of the principle investigators of the “American Mosaic Project,” an ongoing, multi-method study of race, religion and diversity funded by the Minneapolis-based Edelstein Family Foundation.