Including exclusion: the enduring problematic gap between the race and ethnicity paradigms Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. In the article, U.S. Racial and Ethnic Relations in the Twenty-first Century, Zulema Valdez and Tanya Golash-Boza present a compelling argument, suggesting the existence of a gap in race theoretical paradigms and ethnicity theoretical paradigms. They suggest that these two theoretical frames focus on both different social processes and levels of analysis, and argue for a merging of the central tenets of these paradigms in order to facilitate more complete theoretical analyses of racial and ethnic processes in the U.S. While we see great value in this project, we suggest that the authors miss an enduring and problematic gap between these theoretical frames because they do not fully explicate how race/racism theory articulates the fundamentally interconnected relationships between the racial social structure, group-level processes, and individual-level racial dynamics in a manner that ethnicity theory fails to capture.

published proceedings

  • Ethnic and Racial Studies

author list (cited authors)

  • Marquez, B. A., & Moore, W. L.

citation count

  • 1

complete list of authors

  • Marquez, Beatriz Aldana||Moore, Wendy Leo

publication date

  • October 2017