ethnicity

Why the truth is crucial, even it it means losing an American Indian hero.

Steve Kaslov sought to improve the civic status and rights of Romani people in the United States.

U.S. Census classifications through the centuries reflect broad changes in the way Americans understand race and ethnicity.

Celebrating immigrants on the nation's birthday.

Although the West has long tolerated forced expulsions when convenient, its postwar framework at least nominally rejected them. Now the US is endorsing it.

On Jean Strouse and the art of biography.

Can language unify the people?

Anti-Asian immigration restrictions led male Punjabi farm workers in California to marry Mexican and Mexican American women, creating new cultural bonds.

The belief of first-generation Japanese immigrants in their racial superiority over Filipinos was a by-product of the San Joaquin Delta's white hegemony.

100 years ago the U.S. tried to limit immigration to White Europeans. Instead, diversity triumphed.

From the 1880s to the 1940s, New York City was transformed—and so too was the New York City Police Department.

Galvanized by an act of racial violence, the band A Grain of Sand brought a new version of Asian American activism and identity to the folk music scene.

Wilfred Reilly reviews two books critiquing modern ideas of race, social status, and diversity, advocating in favor of racial color-blindness.

We reach for the term when we want to condemn the worst crimes, but the UN’s Genocide Convention excuses more perpetrators of mass murder than it condemns.

"African Founders" corrects some of the ideological uses of Black American history.

Who is counted by the census, how, and for what purpose, has changed a lot since 1790.

What does Hermann’s watchful position over New Ulm—stolen Dakota homelands— reveal about settler colonialism and the geography of memory?

The machine breaks down: A brief history of Tammany Hall.

"A lot has been hidden from Black Americans. And so there is always a longing to know who you are and where you come from.”

The new film is set in a now-bulldozed Black neighborhood, so why is it all about whites and Puerto Ricans? Because it really takes place in Los Angeles.

New technical analysis dates Yale's Vinland Map to the 1920s or later, not the 1440s as previously suggested.

The president has skillfully played up his Irish roots, but the story of his ancestry is more complicated.

DNA testing kits have shifted the way both researchers and the public think about race and identity. This shift is evident in the 2020 U.S. Census data.

America is now ruled by a single elite class rather than by local patrician smart sets competing with each other for money and power.

It helped erode discrimination but also upheld racial prejudice.

More diverse regular history classes are the key to a historically literate population.

Nikole Hannah-Jones gives the credit for ending quotas to civil rights reformers. The truth is a bit more complicated.

"Hispanic" as the name of an ethnicity is contested today. But the category arose from a political need for unity.

A bill making ethnic studies a graduation requirement for California public-school students is expected to be signed by Governor Newsom.

“I was shocked to learn that Hispanic conservatives celebrate Cortes’s arrival in Mexico.”