Ethnicity is defined as a shared cultural heritage based on ancestry, language and customs that have endured for years. Pulitzer Center stories tagged with “Ethnicity” feature reporting that covers conflict between different ethnic groups, ancestral history and the customs that make ethnic groups unique in the world. Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on ethnicity.
Daniella Zalcman's portrait series “Signs of Your Identity” reckons with the loss of Canada's native traditions and languages.
An auto giant's exit brought a Michigan city to its knees.
In 2009, Sri Lanka's Tamil minority suffered terrible crimes at the hands of the Sri Lankan government. Now, photographic and video evidence is surfacing.
One year after ISIS swept into Yazidi villages, sparking an international outcry and escalating U.S. involvement in the war against the radical, Iraq’s Yazidi community is still in crisis.
For the vast majority of Iran's Jewish community, the U.S.-Iran nuclear accord spells good news. Iranian Jews tend not to be hawks, and most believe that the deal will establish regional stability.
Why a tiny South American country can't escape the ugly legacies of its idiosyncratic past.
When Zoroastrian priest Khushroo Madon stirred controversy in his Mumbai community by performing interfaith marriages, his son became chief priest. Now the son must find a suitable bride.
In the first installment of his journey through America's poorest towns, Matt Black documents poverty in the American southwest. Immigrants and citizens alike suffer from policies that keep them poor.
A year after ISIS tried to wipe the Yazidi minority off the map, the scarred community is slowly trying to move on.
An art activity organized for Yazidi children displaced by ISIL became a grim reminder of how deeply they — and millions of other children in Iraq and Syria — have been traumatized by war.
An investigation of Guyana's mixed race population reveals political and cultural nuance in a country often starkly divided between Indians and Africans.
Ukraine's history of foreign conquest, most recently Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, precludes any clear sense of Ukrainian identity. Could nationalism help mend Ukraine's sectarian violence?
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