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Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference
Maurice Freedman,Fredrik Barth +1 more
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This article is published in British Journal of Sociology.The article was published on 1970-06-01. It has received 4205 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social organization & Ethnic group.read more
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Social influence on observed race
TL;DR: In this paper, social ties affect racial perceptions through within-group micromechanisms, resulting in discrepancies between racial self-identifications and race as classified by others, and they demonstrate this empirically on data from 12 Hungarian high school classes with one minority group (the Roma) using stochastic actor-oriented models.
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Constructing identities: Ethnic boundaries and elite preferences in Puerto Rico
TL;DR: The authors assesses elite preferences and the objectification of ethnic boundaries from a rational choice approach, arguing that ethnic elites seek markers that distinguish their group from rivals while still maintaining their in-group privileges.
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‘Of a nation which the others do not understand’: Bambara slaves and African ethnicity in colonial Louisiana, 1718–60
TL;DR: The French North American colony of Louisiana is an interesting and unique example of early eighteenthcentury life in a non-English North America colony, especially as it was inhabited by several thousand African slaves imported in the 1720s.
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Processes of Belonging for Citizen-Children of Undocumented Mexican Immigrants.
Luis H. Zayas,Lauren E. Gulbas +1 more
TL;DR: The findings suggest that belonging is intimately tied to broader forces of legal persecution that go beyond individualized notions of illegality and have deep, possibly lasting psychological effects.
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Ethnic Patriotism and Markets in African History
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on changing'vertical' social inequalities between persons or categories (gender, generation, class) within ethnic groups as a source of social unrest and political pressure, and propose that economists must look for more flexible, more agent-based, more class-conscious, models of possible ethnic relations with market economy than those that are currently relied upon.