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ethnicity

a shared racial, linguistic or national identity of a social group. See also NATIONALISM.

Ethnicity is an imprecise term which has given rise to some degree of conceptual confusion (see also ETHNIC GROUP). It is often conflated with other terms such as racial group.

Ethnicity can incorporate several forms of collective identity, including cultural, religious, national and subcultural forms. A distinction may be drawn between cultural

ethnicity and political ethnicity. The former refers to a belief in a shared language, religion or other such cultural values and practices. The latter refers to the political awareness or mobilization of a group on a (real or assumed) ethnic basis. Although ethnicity is often used in relation to a group's assumed racial identity, strictly racial attributes (see RACE) are not necessarily, or even usually, the defining feature of ethnic groups.

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Multivariate logistic regression analyses were conducted by each ethnic group at wave i, both to investigate what factors influence changing ethnicity within the main ethnic groupings and also to overcome the problem of non-mutually exclusive ethnic groups.

How much and for whom does self-identified ethnicity change over time in New Zealand? Results from a longitudinal study

When the analyses were stratified by race or ethnicity, findings regarding nativity status were similar to those in the initial analyses.

Low-birth-weight risk and mother's nativity status: associations vary by race, ethnicity and education

Accordingly, the production of race and ethnicity is an open and ongoing process of negotiation.

Race and Social Analysis

Black arrested for A government spokesperson said: "Discrimination is as unacceptable in the criminal justice system as it is anywhere else - race and ethnicity cannot be used as justification for an arrest.

RACE AND THE POLICE: AN ARRESTING PROBLEM; HOW BLACK PEOPLE ARE NINE TIMES MORE LIKELY TO BE STOPPED AND SEARCHED THAN WHITE PEOPLE

Estimating the Association of Race and Ethnicity with Outcome

Imputing missing race/ethnicity in pediatric electronic health records: reducing bias with use of U.S. census location and surname data

Ethnicity has acquired exceptional significance for the understanding of contemporary social and economic issues.

ETHNO-NATIONALIST MOVEMENTS IN EUROPE: IMPACT ON IMMIGRATION

Shortly before independence, ethnicity and regionalism replaced the inclusive vision of the liberation struggle.

Does ethnicity matter in South Sudan's conflict?

Mahoney defines Zulu ethnicity primarily in political terms and specifically in terms of Africans' allegiance to chiefs who were subordinate and loyal to the authority of Zulu kings.

The Other Zulus: The Spread of Zulu Ethnicity in Colonial South Africa

Pohl proposes that ethnicity depends on agency between the individual and the various social groups and that this agency, as discourse, can be studied: ethnicity is not a 'given'; ethnicity must be studied in a broader context; ethnicity is a result of social practice; ethnic identities matter in different contexts.

Pohl, Walter and Gerda Heydemann, eds, Strategies of Identification: Ethnicity and Religion in Early Medieval Europe

Reporter-Geoff: male: 35-55 years old, open ethnicity

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This approach, however, doesn't work for people of mixed race or ethnicity because comparison databases can't account for mixed heritage.

A different approach to measuring bone density may be useful

Guild President David Franklin said making Dr Nafafe redundant would have a "serious impact" on students studying ethnicity at the university.