“Not in a Relationship”

Superdiversity’s Anomalous Disengagement from “Race”

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ID23618720
AuthorsSteve Garner (0000-0003-1047-6080, Texas A&M University, corresponding author)
Year2022
Pages359-376
Publication date2022-08-18
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueOxford Handbook of Superdiversity (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197544938.013.32
OpenAlexW4297644978
ISBN9780197544938
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited28

This chapter examines the relationship between the concepts of superdiversity, ethnicity, and race. It identifies scholars using the superdiversity paradigm engage much more frequently with ethnicity than they do with race, which is a particularly underdeveloped engagement. “Ethnicity” and “race” are defined as separate but overlapping concepts, and their uses within the scholarship on superdiversity are a basis for formulating a hypothesis about why ethnicity is more popular. The chapter argues that the conceptual history of ethnicity means that race is always present in its formulation. Race seems to have been imagined by most superdiversity practitioners as an older and now less pertinent frame for understanding the complexities of social relationships within the primarily microlevel studies that so far dominate the superdiversity corpus. The second half of the chapter suggests how a closer engagement with critical race scholarship might expand and improve the work on superdiversity. Stratification and integration are used as themes to illustrate this theory.

Epistemology · Ethnic group · Political science · Race (biology) · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Social and Cultural Dynamics

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