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Ethnic studies is an academic field that spans the humanities and the social sciences; it emerged as an academic field in the second half of the 20th century partly in response to charges that traditional social science and humanities disciplines such as anthropology, history, literature, sociology, philosophy, political science, and area ...
Collins is a social theorist whose work and research primarily focuses on race, social class, sexuality, and gender. She has written a number of books and articles on said topics. [11] Collins work focuses on Intersectionality, by looking at issues through the lens of women of color. In her work, she writes "First, we need new visions of what ...
An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people who identify with each other on the basis of perceived shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups. Those attributes can include people of a common language, culture, common sets of ancestry, traditions, society, religion, history, or social treatment.
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism (SEN), formerly The ASEN Bulletin, is a scholarly interdisciplinary peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on ethnicity and nationalism. It is published biannually on behalf of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, by Wiley-Blackwell. The journal covers a wide range of topics ...
Under this interpretation, race is conceptualized through a lens of artificiality, rather than through the skeleton of a scientific discovery. As a result, scholars have begun to broaden discourses of race by defining it as a social construct and exploring the historical contexts that led to its inception and persistence in contemporary society ...
In 2019, Hochman, a proponent of the theory of racialization, pointed out that the concept of racialization is often misidentified as relating to races or what constitutes a race, leading race-skeptic scholars in academia to discourage its use, while it actually pertains to how races are systemically and socially grouped for marginalization.
Tully, Alan W. "Ethnicity, Religion, and Politics in Early America." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (1983): 491-536. JSTOR 20091806 online; Vandermeer, Philip R. "Religion, society, and politics: a classification of American religious groups." Social Science History (1981): 3-24. JSTOR 1171088
Today, such ethnic enclaves has mostly been eliminated, due to the contemporary Singapore's government policy to encourage further ethnic integration between the different races of Singapore. A prominent example is its public housing system.