Race v. Ethnicity

Race v. Ethnicity- Race often dealt with large groups of people with something in common to classify them into a race, such as white or Asian or black. Ethnicity was more specific as it dealt with specific groups of people with a specific cultural background such as Portuguese, Jewish, or Japanese. Race was used to exclude minorities through the law as Takaki mentions on p. 273 that laws were passed to barr those that weren't white to attain citizenship. Also Brodkin mentions on p. 44 how the GI Bill favored those who were of the white race, but with no delineation of ethnicity within the white race. It was meant to exclude all other races. Ethnicity is mentioned in the video A Challenge To Democracy. The video mentioned that Japanese people would be sent to internment camps specifically, not Filipinos or Chinese. It targeted a specific culturally similar group of people rather than the all-encompassing Asian race that included people of other ethnicities. Both race and ethnicity were used to exclude those that weren't considered a part of white society.