Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction - Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States: Social Constructions and Social Relations in Historical and Contemporary Perspective // Nancy Foner and George M. Fredrickson
Part I - Historical and Theoretical Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity
Chapter 1 - Conceptual Confusions and Divides: Race, Ethnicity, and the Study of Immigration // Stephen Cornell and Douglas Hartmann
Chapter 2 - Ethnicity: An American Genealogy // Victoria Hattam
Chapter 3 - The Amplitude of Ethnic History: An American Story // John Higham
Chapter 4 - The Great Migration, African Americans, and Immigrants in the Industrial City // Joe W. Trotter
Chapter 5 - Immigration and the Social Construction of Otherness: “Underclass” Stigma and Intergroup Relations // Gerald Jaynes
Part II - Immigration, Race, and the State
Chapter 6 - American Gatekeeping: Race and Immigration Law in the Twentieth Century // Erika Lee
Chapter 7 - The Census Counts, the Census Classifies // Kenneth Prewitt
Part III - Panethnicity
Chapter 8 - Making New Immigrants “Inbetween”: Irish Hosts and White Panethnicity, 1890 to 1930 // David Roediger and James Barrett
Chapter 9 - The Formation of Latino and Latina Panethnic Identities // Jose Itzigsohn
Chapter 10 - Asian American Panethnicity: Contemporary National and Transnational Possibilities // Yen Le Espiritu
Part IV - Socioeconomic Profiles and Trends
Chapter 11 - Old and New Landscapes of Diversity: The Residential Patterns of Immigrant Minorities // Richard Alba and Nancy Denton
Chapter 12 - Intermarriage Then and Now: Race, Generation, and the Changing Meaning of Marriage // Joel Perlmann and Mary C. Waters
Chapter 13 - Race, Assimilation, and “Second Generations,” Past and Present // Philip Kasinitz
Part V - Intergroup Relations
Chapter 14 - The Black-Asian Conflict? // John Lie
Chapter 15 - Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Customers Throughout the Twentieth Century // Steven J. Gold
Chapter 16 - Straddling the Color Line: The Legal Construction of Hispanic Identity in Texas // Neil Foley
Chapter 17 - Black and Brown in Compton: Demographic Change, Suburban Decline, and Intergroup Relations in a South Central Los Angeles Community, 1950 to 2000 // Albert M. Camarillo
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