Early race concepts treated behavior and culture as evidence of hidden inner difference.

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 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Bodily and cultural notions of race developed together from the start — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 125; Conceptions of ethnicity evolved separately from categories of race — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 642; Race operates to tie culture, body, and behavior together (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Conceptions of ethnicity evolved separately from categories of race #complicates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 642