Description: * Asterisk indicates articles new to this edition. I.INTRODUCTION: DEFINITIONS AND PERSPECTIVES. 1. Race, Caste, and Other Invidious Distinctions in Social Stratification , Gerald D. Berreman. 2.* Constructing Ethnicity: Creating and Recreating Ethnic Identity and Culture, Joane Nagel. 3.* Dominant Group Ethnic Identity in the United States: The Role of 'Hidden' Ethnicity in Intergroup Relations, Ashley W. Doane, Jr. II.HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES. 4.* Postethnic America, David A. Hollinger. 5.* The First Americans: American Indians, C. Matthew Snipp. 6.* In between Peoples: Race, Nationality, and the "New Immigrant" Working Class, James Barrett and David Roediger. 7. The Declining Significance of Race, William Julius Wilson. 8.* Land, Labor, and Group Formation: Blacks and Indians in the United States, Stephen Cornell. 9.* The Construction of the Ghetto, Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton. 10.* The Structuring of Hispanic Ethnicity: Theoretical and Historical Considerations, Frank D. Bean and Marta Tienda. 11.* Asian Pacific Americans: Historical Trends, Don Mar and Marlene Kim. III.MODELS OF ETHNIC INTEGRATION IN THE UNITED STATES. 12. Assimilation in American Life, Milton M. Gordon. 13.* Revisiting Assimilation: The Rise, Fall, and Reappraisal of a Concept in American Ethnic History, Russell A. Kazal. 14.* Immigration and Ethnic and Racial Inequality in the United States, Mary C. Waters and Karl Eschbach. 15.* Assimilation's Quiet Tide, Richard D. Alba. 16. Immigrant and Ethnic Enterprise in North America, Ivan Light. 17.* The New Second Generation: Segmented Assimilation and Its Variants, Alejandro Portes and Min Zhou. 18.* Minority Status and Literacy in Comparative Perspective, John U. Ogbu. 19.* Work, William Julius Wilson. 20.* The Continuing Significance of Race: Anti-Black Discrimination in Public Places, Joe R. Feagin. 21.* The Racial Ghetto as a Race-Making Situation: The Effects of Residential Segregation on Racial Inequalities and Racial Identity, David R. James. 22. Symbolic Ethnicity: The Future of Ethnic Groups and Cultures in America, Herbert J. Gans. IV.THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND THE FUTURE OF ETHNICITY. 23.* The New Immigration and Ethnicity in the United States, Douglas S. Massey. 24.* America's Immigration "Problem", Saskia Sassen. 25.* Gendered Immigration, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. 26.* Mexican Migration and the Social Space of Postmodernism, Roger Rouse. 27.* The New Urban Reality, Roger Waldinger. Statistical Appendix. Bibliography. List of Contributors.

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