ethnicity

Proudly embracing their role as outsiders, a group of writer-activists set out to create a cultural identity—and a literature—of their own.

In Theodor de Bry’s illustrations for "True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia," the Algonquin are made to look like the Irish. Surprise.

On race, borders and belonging.

The “fetishization” of Appalachia’s supposed racial and ethnic purity and Trump's proposal to end birthright citizenship.

What happens when we find out writers aren't who they said they were.

In 1911, the Dillingham Commission set a half-century precedent for screening out 'undesirable' newcomers.

The national survey offers more identity choices than ever—until those choices get scrubbed away.

Who were the early immigrants to America?

Yvonne Seale on a bizarre and fanciful piece of genealogical scholarship and what it tells us about identity in late 19th-century America.

You’re not 28 percent Finnish, either.

The word "Creole" invites debate because it possesses several meanings, some of which concern the innately sensitive subjects of race and ethnicity.

The Trump Administration's reasons for resettling Afrikaners echo early U.S. debates about Haiti's independence.

Jewish-led Palestine solidarity demonstrations are part of a long history of Jewish identity being bound up in leftist politics.

French Canadians held a distinct position in an American labor landscape in which experts viewed different “races” as being suited to different kinds of work.

When it came to antisemitism, women’s colleges were no better than the Ivy League.

How an erroneous 18th-century story about the “Caucasian race” led to a centuries of prejudice and misapprehension.

Jean Strouse explores the relationship between the Anglo-Jewish Wertheimers and John Singer Sargent, who painted twelve portraits of them.

Vito Marcantonio fought racial, social, and economic injustices, promoting cross-cultural solidarity and progressive ideals amid McCarthyism and segregation.

Comparing the struggles of Mexican and Greek immigrants to the United States.

The murder of independent Congo’s first prime minister, the subject of a new book, had lasting psychological effects on the whole continent.

The musical culture of the New York metropolitan area, combined with themes of suburban life, suffuse the legends' music.

A conversation about James Baldwin’s 1967 essay, “Negroes are Anti-Semitic Because They are Anti-White.”

Community cookbooks provide a perspective on the American melting pot.

Asian sailors came to the west coast of America in 1587. Within a century they were settled in colonies from Mexico to Peru.

David Hackett Fischer's book "African Founders" should be the starting point for any reflection on the enduring African ­influence on American national ideals.

On the value of the discipline and its applications.

A commitment to internationalism helped build multi-ethnic campaigns within the more radical and anti-authoritarian side of the US labor movement.

From the Statehouse to Lucas Oil Stadium, Arab American immigrants have made contributions across Indianapolis, according to IUPUI's Edward Curtis.

The memoirs of Korean adoptees, once full of confession and confusion, are now marked by confidence and rage.

A conversation with the biographer of radical Jewish 'revenge theologian' Meir Kahane.