The term ethnicity was revived in WWII to replace the discredited word race
Evidence
The word was revived only during World War II, at a time when “race” had become compromised by its fascist abusers. W. Lloyd Warner reintroduced “ethnicity” as a social category, parallel to sex and age, by which human beings can be differentiated from each other. Like “race,” which it set out to replace, “ethnicity” contains a doubleness. Derived from the Greek root ethnikos, the word refers both to people in general and to people who are different from the speakers, making “ethnic” applicable to self-description and to ascription. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 695
Categorization
- DEFINE: Core grounding: ethnicity carries an inherent doubleness (people in general vs. people different from the speakers), making it usable for both self-description and ascription.
- XREF: Directly sharpens the race/ethnicity distinction used throughout the vault’s CRT definitions; connects to Omi & Winant on racialization. — connects to: The term ethnic group was coined to replace the discredited word race; Ethnicity was revived as a category only when race became discredited; Postwar scholarship replaced race with ethnicity as the preferred term (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- The term ethnic group was coined to replace the discredited word race
#corroborates(0.95) - Ethnicity was revived as a category only when race became discredited
#corroborates(0.90) - Postwar scholarship replaced race with ethnicity as the preferred term
#corroborates(0.80) - After 1945 the label race gave way to ethnicity in scholarly usage
#corroborates(0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 696 - Early anti-racist scholars proposed replacing race with ethnic group as a descriptive category
#expands(0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 658 - Recasting race as ethnicity allows a racial hierarchy to persist unnoticed.
#expands(0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3199 - Ethnicity emerged as a status upgrade over race for Europeans
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