Although the term `ethnicity' is recent, the sense of kinship, group solidarity, and common culture to which it refers is as old as the historical record. Ethnic communities have been present in every period and continent, playing an important role in all societies. Ethnic community and identity are often associated with conflict, but there is no essential connection between ethnicity and strife. This Oxford Reader includes extracts by all the major contributors to the current debates on ethnicity and its worldwide effects, and provides answers to questions such as what is ethnicity and can it be transcended?

Channeling Blackness: Studies on Television and Race in America presents fifteen classic and contemporary studies of the shifting, complex relationship between popular television and blackness.

The first text to take an explicitly ethnographic approach to the study of race

The author of Black Wealth/White Wealth argues that assets hold the key to understanding how racial inequality is passed down from generation to generation

A cutting-edge, wide-ranging, and affordable collection of articles on race in the United States today

This updated text introduces foundational ideas and concepts about race and ethnic groups and applies them to issues and events relevant to today's college student population.