"New Ethnicities" and Medieval "Race"

A new physiologic race

Medieval and Modern Concepts of Race and Ethnicity

Historians working in the present day, just like their medieval and early modern predecessors, are confronted with difficult choices when they write of human population groups.1 When, if at all, is it reasonable to employ the word race, the word nation, the word tribe ? What collective term best describes, say, the Goths, the English, the Jews? What meaning does the concept “ethnic identity” ha...

Race and the new reproduction.

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Manager Race and the Race of New Hires

Abstract: Using personnel data from a large U.S. retail firm, we examine whether the race or ethnicity of the hiring manager affects the racial composition of new hires. Estimating models with store fixed effects, we find significant effects of manager race and ethnicity. First, all nonblack managers—i.e., whites, Hispanics, and Asians—hire more whites and fewer blacks than do black managers. T...

Uncertainty Reduction Among Ethnicities

Uncertainty reduction underlies relational development, i.e., relationships develop as we learn more about each other. The present study examines ethnic differences in the uses of interactive uncertainty reduction communication--selfdisclosure, interrogative strategies, non-verbal immediacy, and other's self-disclosure-and their inter-relationships with attributional confidence (uncertainty red...