An ethnoracial perspective: response to Valdez and Golash-Boza

ABSTRACT

Valdez and Golash-Boza argue that scholarship on race and scholarship on ethnicity have been divorced from each other and call for researchers to put these two paradigms in conversation with one another. I address some of their assertions using previous work, including my own, that has merged racial and ethnic literatures and that has shed new light on old theories, as well as opened the path toward new theories and methods. I argue that an ethnoracial perspective can be leveraged to better understand global racial and ethnic inequalities.

KEYWORDS:

• Race
• ethnicity
• ethnoracism
• structural racism
• minorities
• immigrants

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank Rory Kramer and Elizabeth Vaquera for reading a draft of this response.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

Notes

1 I expand on this argument in my 2006 book.