Description: Shades of Difference introduces new perspectives on the definition of 'whiteness' in America, and makes an original contribution to the larger discussion of race through a detailed account of ethnicity's original meaning and its revaluation when later appropriated by the disco...
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"A brilliant, provocative, impressive book. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries." --W. Glasker, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Camden, Choice Reviews
"His text reveals a quite provocative thesis....Rees' text can be lauded with a reasonable amount of success." --Journal Of African American Studies "In this important text, Richard Rees provides a much-needed analysis of the development of the concept of ethnicity that provides not only a detailed history, but also a new explanation of how the concepts of "ethnicity" and "race" developed in relation to one another. Rees challenges the assumption that while race is a discredited concept, ethnicity is its more benign counterpart. This is a book with which every scholar of race and ethnicity must be familiar." --Karyn McKinney, Penn State University, Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, Penn State Altoona