Ethnicity is frequently conflated with race in scholarship

Evidence

Ethnicity is an interesting aspect of identity, but one that may be too often conflated with race, even in CRT-oriented scholarship. Although my skin color indicates many possible ethnicities, I am black American or African-American. Blacks living in the United States who are from the Caribbean or Africa may not consider themselves part of the same group as me. Imagine a white South African, who moves to the USA and becomes a citizen. Isn’t she an African American? I have cousins who are Jamaican Americans and Liberian Americans. Some consider themselves Black Americans and some do not. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1175

Ethnicity is an interesting aspect of identity, but one that may be too often conflated with race, even in CRT-oriented scholarship. Although my skin color indicates many possible ethnicities, I am black American or African-American. Blacks living in the United States who are from the Caribbean or Africa may not consider themselves part of the same group as me. Imagine a white South African, who moves to the USA and becomes a citizen. Isn’t she an African American? — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1175

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes ethnicity from race, showing how the two are analytically separable yet routinely merged.
• XREF: Directly bears on the ethnicity-versus-race distinction the vault reader says they chase across CRT works — this passage offers the conflation warning and a concrete counter-example of a white South African being ‘African American.’ — connects to: Published multiracial research skews Latinx and views ancestry as a categorical aid. — Tatiana I. Zamora and Amado M. Padilla, Making sense of conflicting messages of…, 105; Ethnicity as a sociological concept includes but exceeds race — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 698
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1175