To Live Is to Resist: The Life of Antonio Gramsci

Abstract

race, ethnicity, and nation as cognitive categories that people use to classify themselves and others based on putative descent (Brubaker et al. 2004). More practically, and perhaps as the result of these conceptual issues, Segregation finds the distinctions between segregation by race versus ethnicity versus immigration hard to sustain. For example, discussions of Black Americans’ residential patterns appear in the chapter on race, but also the chapter on ethnic communities (p. 103 on the Black communities in Harlem and the south side of Chicago), as well as the chapter on immigration (p. 132 on the segregation of Black immigrant groups in New York City). It is perhaps unfair to criticize a book, though, for organizing its arguments in some way; and, for a book that aims and will surely succeed at being a reference, a structure that follows the contours of prior work—however arbitrary—makes sense.