{"product_id":"9780198021490","title":"The Invention of Ethnicity","description":"This important new collection of interdisciplinary essays sets out to chart the cultural construction of \"ethnicity\" as embodied in American ethnic literature. Looking at a diverse set of texts, the contributors place the subject in broad historical and dynamic contexts, focusing on the larger systems within which ethnic distinctions emerge and obtain recognition.  It provides a new critical framework for understanding not only ethnic literature, but also the underlying psychological, historical, social, and cultural forces. Table of Contents:  On the Fourth of July in Sitka, \u003cem\u003eIshmael Reed\u003c\/em\u003e.  Introduction:  The Invention of Ethnicity, \u003cem\u003eWerner Sollors\u003c\/em\u003e.  An American Writer, \u003cem\u003eRichard Rodriguez\u003c\/em\u003e.  A Plea for Fictional Histories and Old-Time \"Jewesses\", \u003cem\u003eAlide Cagidemetrio\u003c\/em\u003e.  Ethnicity as Festive Culture: Nineteenth-Century German-America on Parade, \u003cem\u003eKathleen Conzen\u003c\/em\u003e.  Defining the Race, 1890-1930, \u003cem\u003eJudith Stein\u003c\/em\u003e. Anzia Yezierska and the Making of an Ethnic American Self, \u003cem\u003eMary Dearborn\u003c\/em\u003e.  Deviant Girls and Dissatisfied Women:  A Sociologist's Tale, \u003cem\u003eCarla Cappeti\u003c\/em\u003e.  Ethnic Trilogies:  A Genealogical and Generational Poetics, \u003cem\u003eWilliam Boelhower\u003c\/em\u003e. Blood in the Market Place:  The Business of Family in the \u003cem\u003eGodfather\u003c\/em\u003e Narratives, \u003cem\u003eThomas Ferraro\u003c\/em\u003e.  Comping for Count Basie, \u003cem\u003eAlbert Murray\u003c\/em\u003e.  Is Ethnicity Obsolete, \u003cem\u003eIshmael Reed, Andrew Hope, Shawn Wong,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBob Callahan\u003c\/em\u003e.","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47106909110512,"sku":"9780198021490","price":64.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780198021490","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}