Ethnic Options

Choosing Identities in America

Author: Mary C. Waters
ISBN: 0520070836

"Mary Waters' admirable study of Americans' ethnic choices produces a rich social-scientific yield. Its theoretical interest derives from the American irony that while ethnicity is 'supposed to be' ascribed, many Americans are active in choosing and making their ethnic memberships and identities. The monograph is simultaneously objective and attentive to subjective meaning, simultaneously quantitative and qualitative, and simultaneously sociological and psychological. Her research problems are well-conceived, and her findings important and well-documented. As ethnicity and race continue in their high salience in American society and politics, sound social-scientific studies like this one are all the more valuable."--Neil Smelser, co-editor of The Social Importance of Self-Esteem"One of the most sensible and elegant books about ethnicity in the United States that has ever been my great pleasure to read."--Andrew M. Greeley, University of Chicago"Skilled in both demographic and interview

Publisher: University of California Press
Publish Date: 1990

Subjects: History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General, Social Science / Sociology / General

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Cross-Cultural Center (Location: U.S. History and Identity (USHI))