The diversity paradox : immigration and the color line in twenty-first century America

The diversity paradox : immigration and the color line in twenty-first century America / Jennifer Lee and Frank D. Bean.

"Using an impressive arsenal of quantitative and qualitative data, Jennifer Lee and Frank Bean offer an authoritative analysis of the color line in American society, revealing a remarkable paradox at the heart of contemporary intergroup relations. Although immigration has dramatically increased...

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Main Authors: Lee, Jennifer, 1968- (Author), Bean, Frank D. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, ©2010.
Subjects:
Immigrants > United States > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
Immigrants
Race relations
United States > Race relations.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
United States
Electronic book.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. I. Historical background, theoretical framework, and sociodemographic context.
  • Introduction : immigration and the color line in America
  • Theoretical perspectives on color lines in the United States
  • What is this person's race? The census and the construction of racial categories
  • Immigration and the geography of the new ethnoracial diversity / with James D. Bachmeier and Zoya Gubernskaya
  • pt. II. Individual experiences of diversity : from multiraciality to multiracial identification.
  • The cultural boundaries of ethnoracial status and intermarriage
  • What about the children? Interracial families and ethnoracial identification
  • Who is multiracial? The cultural reproduction of the one-drop rule
  • From racial to ethnic status : claiming ethnicity through culture
  • pt. III. The empirical and policy significance of diversity : generalization and paradox.
  • Ethnoracial diversity, minority-group threat, and boundary dissolution : clarifying the diversity paradox / with James D. Bachmeier
  • Conclusion : the diversity paradox and beyond (Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose).

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