Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Takezawa, Yasuko
• University of Cologne Forum »Ethnicity as a Political Resource«

Titel

Rethinking ‘race’ from Asian perspectives

Ist Teil von

• Ethnicity as a Political Resource, 2015, p.75-84

Auflage

1. Aufl.

Ort / Verlag

Germany: transcript Verlag

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

UTB Scholars

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In continental Europe, there has been a tendency to avoid using the term ‘race’ in favor of ‘ethnicity’. In the United States, on the other hand, there is abundant literature on race – far more than that on ethnicity – and in Latin America, racism and skin pigmentation are attracting increasing attention since the strong correlation between pigmentation and socioeconomic hierarchy has been revealed (cp. for example, Telles and PERLA 2014). The usage of the terms thus varies depending on the region and its historical/social context. Race in general is defined as a group identified by what are perceived to