A critique of symbolic ethnicity: The ideology of choice?

Ethnicities

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 94-122

  Anagnostou, Yiorgos ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

American multiculturalism; Assimilation and diversity; Ethnic identity; Symbolic ethnicity; White ethnicity

Indexed keywords

EID: 60149102257     PISSN: 14687968     EISSN: 17412706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468796808099906     Document Type: Article

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