Conceptions of ethnicity evolved separately from categories of race

Evidence

Banton’s analysis is followed by Werner Sollors’ insightful account of the evolution of the concept of ethnicity. Sollors traces the ambiguities and overlaps between ideas of race and ethnicity, highlighting the ways in which ethnicity as a conceptual tool has been differentiated from race and how, in turn, issues of race and racism have been seen as separate from ethnic and cultural identity. He argues forcefully that there is a need for a more nuanced and contextualized understanding of the interrelationships between race and ethnicity. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 642

Categorization

• XREF: Sollors’s claim that ethnicity was conceptually differentiated from race parallels the vault’s use of racialization and the race/ethnicity distinction; also resonates with Omi & Winant’s treatment of ethnicity theory as the older paradigm. — connects to: Race-thinking preceded and differs from racism as a full ideology; Bodily and cultural notions of race developed together from the start — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 125; Racial categorization of the same person varies by time, place, and context (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Bodily and cultural notions of race developed together from the start #contradicts (0.85) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 125
• Race-thinking preceded and differs from racism as a full ideology #responds-to (0.75)
• Racial categorization of the same person varies by time, place, and context #expands (0.72)
• Ethnicity emerged as a status upgrade over race for Europeans #exemplifies (0.72)