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Editor's Note
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THIS SPECIAL ISSUE, titled "Racial Divides," provides an opportunity to examine race and ethnic relations between and within ethnic and racial groups in American society. While superficial and stereotypical treatments of these groups frequently portray them as uniform, homogeneous, and cohesive social and cultural formations, the essays in this special issue once again amply demonstrate multifarious ways in which customary societal labels, categories, and groups need to be interrogated and challenged. The social and cultural constructs of "race" and "ethnic group," meanwhile, are shown here to be both complex and mutable, as are the political, social, and cultural attitudes of "group members." Taken together, the essays in this issue reveal the empirical richness, dynamism, and variety of specific historical cases. The essays here constitute a whole that is greater than the sum of the parts, but on the difficult subject of race and ethnicity, it is far from a cohesive whole. |
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In presenting this special issue, a word of special thanks is due a few individuals. We are grateful to Walter Kamphoefner, who organized and edited the "Forum: German Americans and Their Relations with African Americans during the Mid-Nineteenth Century," and to IEHS First Vice-President/President-Elect Barbara Posadas, who in her role as IEHS Program Chair facilitated its publication.
John J. Bukowczyk
Editor
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