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Culture and Race/Ethnicity: Bolder, Deeper, and Broader

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  • John D. Skrentny

    (University of California, San Diego)

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The role of cultural analysis in the sociology of race, ethnicity, and immigration varies across subject matter. Primarily for political reasons, it has been marginalized in the study of ethnic/racial inequality, though new work is reclaiming culture in this important context. It has an unacknowledged presence in studies of discrimination and domination, but is explicit in macro and historical studies. This article surveys these subfields and makes a call for bolder, deeper, and broader cultural analysis in the field. More work is needed on cultural assimilation, how inequality and discrimination produce racial and ethnic meanings, how ethnic and racial cultures affect interests through variations in conceptions of the meaning of life, how sending state cultures affect immigrant and ethnic cultures in the United States, and how globalization is Americanizing immigrants before they even leave their homelands.

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  • John D. Skrentny, 2008. "Culture and Race/Ethnicity: Bolder, Deeper, and Broader," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 619(1), pages 59-77, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:sae:anname:v:619:y:2008:i:1:p:59-77
    DOI: 10.1177/0002716208319761
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    1. Mario Luis Small & David J. Harding & Michèle Lamont, 2010. "Reconsidering Culture and Poverty," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 629(1), pages 6-27, May.

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