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 culture rather than body and blood. Eventually,
Hattam shows, the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the
Census Bureau institutionalized this distinction by classifying
Latinos as an ethnic group and not a race. But immigration and the
resulting population shifts of the last half century have created a
political opening for reimagining the relationship between
immigration and race. How to do so is the question at hand.
"In the Shadow of Race" concludes by examining the recent New York
and Los Angeles elections and the 2006 immigrant rallies across the
country to assess the possibilities of forging a more robust
alliance between immigrants and African Americans. Such an alliance
is needed, Hattam argues, to more effectively redress the
persistent inequalities in American life.
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