• DOI:10.1177/1468796804045237
Corpus ID: 145445798

Race and Ethnicity or Racialized Ethnicities?

@article{Grosfoguel2004RaceAE,
  title={Race and Ethnicity or Racialized Ethnicities?},
  author={Ram{\'a}n Grosfoguel},
  journal={Ethnicities},
  year={2004},
  volume={4},
  pages={315 - 336}
}

• Ramán Grosfoguel
• Published 2004
• Sociology
• Ethnicities

The traditional distinction between race and ethnicity is considered highly problematic. In the literature, ethnicity is frequently assumed to be the cultural identity of a group within a nation state while race is assumed to be the biological and/or cultural essentialization/naturalization of a group based on a hierarchy of superiority and inferiority related to the biological constitution of their bodies. It is posited that, depending on the context of power relations involved, there are… Expand