Contents
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
Part 1. Historical Background, Theoretical Framework, and Sociodemographic Context
1. Introduction: Immigration and the Color Line in America
2. Theoretical Perspetives on Color Lines in the United States
3. What Is This Person's Race? The Census and the Construction of Racial Categories
4. Immigration and the Geography of the New Ethnoracial Diversity, with James D. Bachmeier and Zoya Gubernskaya
Part 2. Individual Experiences of Diversity: From Multieraciality to Multiracial Identification
5. The Cultural Boundaries of Ethnoracial Status and Intermarriage
6. What About the Children? Interracial Families and Ethnoracial Identification
7. Who Is Multiracial? The Cultural Reproduction of the One-Drop Rule
8. From Racial to Ethnic Status: Claiming Ethnicity Through Culture
Part 3. the Empirical and Policy Significance of Diversity: Generalization and Paradox
9. Ethnoracial Diversity, Minority-Group Threat, and Boundary Dissolution: Clarifying the Diversity Paradox, with James D. Bachmeier
10. Conclusion: The Diversity Paradox and Beyond (Plus Ca Change, Plus C'est la Meme Chose)
Appendix: Methodological Appendix
Notes
References
Index