Ethnicities is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes research in the fields of sociology and politics concerning questions of ethnicity, nationalism and related issues such as identity politics and minority rights.

In its first issue, the journal offered an academic symposium on the key issues facing the field of ethnicity at that time, with contributions from Craig Calhoun, Nira Yuval-Davis, T.K.

In its early volumes, Ethnicities published an editorial (2.1) and an academic symposium on the reasons for, and potential consequences of, the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the USA (2.2), with the latter including contributions from Mahmood Mamdani, Mohammad Waseem, Ruth Rubio-Marín, Barnor Hesse, Ien Ang, and the late Iris Marion Young.

Ethnicities has cross-disciplinary aims and contains articles from the disciplines of sociology, political theory, cultural geography, anthropology, cultural and media studies, history, education, social psychology and law.

According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2022 impact factor is 2.505 and 5-year impact factor is 2.471, ranking it 7th out of 13 journals in the category "Ethnic Studies".