Hierarchical Structures and Social Value : The Creation of Black and Irish Identities in the United States

Beschreibung

Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Combining theoretical and historical analysis, this book develops the thesis that the concepts of 'race' and 'ethnicity' are socially constructed. With case studies of the incorporation of Blacks and Irish immigrants into the social structure of the United States, Richard Williams demonstrates that the social values placed upon these groups result from their placement into specific labour categories rather than from inherent attributes. The author analyses the process by which the social identities of Blacks and Irish developed in their native lands. He argues that the social structure in the United States at its founding was hierarchical from its inception and that immigrant wage labourers were demanded to fill positions created by that structure. The conceptions of their identities developed through a transfer of the value assigned to their social positions to the groups themselves. Racial and ethnic identities represent the legitimisation of social stratification based on power relations.

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Bibliografische Details

Titel

Hierarchical Structures and Social Value : The Creation of Black and Irish Identities in the United States

Verlag

Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

0521144795

ISBN-13

9780521144797

Einband

Taschenbuch

Zustand

Neu

Abmessungen

229B x 152 H x 12 T Millimeter Breite: 229 mm, Höhe: 152 mm, Tiefe: 12 mm

Gewicht

346 Gramm

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