Early anti-racist scholars proposed replacing race with ethnic group as a descriptive category

Evidence

Attempting to set the record straight, Huxley and Haddon (1935:220) argued that the groups which were commonly called races were genetically mixed, and that mixture was a matter of nationality, class, and social status; “the word race should be banished, and the descriptive and noncommittal term ethnic group should be substituted.” The relations between blacks, Native Americans, and whites in the US were ethnic relations because social and cultural factors occasioned their differences. This was a proposed correction of the first word in the expression. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 658

Categorization

• DEFINE: Grounds the vault’s race vs. ethnicity distinction in an actual 1935 proposal by Huxley and Haddon, giving the ethnicity-as-substitute move a named, dated origin.
• XREF: Connects directly to vault claims about ethnicity vs. race and racialization definitions used in CRT intro material. — connects to: The term ethnic group was coined to replace the discredited word race; US ethnic-studies practice subsumed ‘racial’ groups under ‘ethnic’ categories — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 697; Scientists proposed banning the word race in favor of ethnic group (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• The term ethnic group was coined to replace the discredited word race #corroborates (0.95)
• Scientists proposed banning the word race in favor of ethnic group #corroborates (0.90)
• Ethnicity was revived as a category only when race became discredited #corroborates (0.85)
• US ethnic-studies practice subsumed ‘racial’ groups under ‘ethnic’ categories #exemplifies (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 697