内容摘要： 探讨近代欧洲裔族群问题会自动引起一个被长期忽略的问题：它是否将结束和怎样结束？通过什么样的最终阶段和过程？在美国，这个问题仅对最后一代欧洲移民浪潮（大概从1870年代持续到1924年）的后裔是很有意义的。当然回答此问题也为最终回答一个关于在更新的移民潮中近代的伦理学问题打下了基础。

Abstract: Exploring late-generation ethnicity automatically raises a long-ignored question: whether it will end and how: through what terminal stages and processes? In America, this question currently makes sense only for late-generation descendants of the European immigration wave that lasted roughly from the 1870s to 1924. However, answering it prepares the ground for eventually asking is also about late-generation ethnics in newer waves of immigration.

关键词：族群，近代族群，族群和宗教，身份，最终族群身份;

Keyword:ethnicity, late-generation ethnicity, ethnicity and religion, identity, terminal ethnic identity;

作者：Herbert J. Gans(著), 周学文(译)(中国社会科学院民族学与人类学研究所,)

来源： 《Ethnic and racial studies 2015, April,》 第3期