ethnicity

race

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

anthropologist

university professor

Queens College - CUNY

innovator in the field of

the city

urban anthropology

anthropology

is the expressive processes of cultural identification. To be contrasted with racial identity which is the repressive processes of social exclusion.

Sanjek defines ethnicity as 'expressive processes of cultural identification' and racial identity in terms of 'repressive processes of social exclusion.' (Roger Sanjek, 'Race,' in Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology 1996. 164)

is the framework of ranked categories segmenting the human population that was developed by western europeans following their global expansion in the 1400's.

Sanjek, for example, defines race as ''the framework of ranked categories segmenting the human population that was developed by western Europeans following their global expansion in the 1400's' (1994: 1).

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