Keyword Infographic (Ethnicity) - Avni Woodward

what is ethnicity ?

Ethnicity is a process by which individuals or groups came to be understood or to understand themselves

The civil rights movement of the 1950s helped reinforce the process of ethnic transformation

Social practices like language, religion, rituals, and other patterns of behavior define the content of a group’s culture.

Immigrants between 1890 and 1920 such as Slavs, Jews, Italians, Greeks, and Armenians were being transformed into white ethnics. “Varieties of white people”

Ethnicity = cultural traitsRace = physical appearance

Yu, Henry. "27 Ethnicity". Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Third Edition, edited by Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler, New York, USA: New York University Press, 2020, pp. 106-110. https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479867455.003.0031

The acceptance and eventual celebration of ethnic difference was one of the most significant transitions of the twentieth century.

Cultural assimilation