| Contributors | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction : immigration, race, and ethnicity in the United States : social constructions and social relations in historical and contemporary perspective | 1 |
| Ch. 1 | Conceptual confusions and divides : race, ethnicity, and the study of immigration | 23 |
| Ch. 2 | Ethnicity : an American genealogy | 42 |
| Ch. 3 | The amplitude of ethnic history : an American story | 61 |
| Ch. 4 | The great migration, African Americans, and immigrants in the industrial city | 82 |
| Ch. 5 | Immigration and the social construction of otherness : "underclass" stigma and intergroup relations | 100 |
| Ch. 6 | American gatekeeping : race and immigration law in the twentieth century | 119 |
| Ch. 7 | The census counts, the census classifies | 145 |
| Ch. 8 | Making new immigrants "inbetween" : Irish hosts and white panethnicity, 1890 to 1930 | 167 |
| Ch. 9 | The formation of Latino and Latina panethnic identities | 197 |
| Ch. 10 | Asian American panethnicity : contemporary national and transnational possibilities | 217 |
| Ch. 11 | Old and new landscapes of diversity : the residential patterns of immigrant minorities | 237 |
| Ch. 12 | Intermarriage then and now : race, generation, and the changing meaning of marriage | 262 |
| Ch. 13 | Race, assimilation, and "second generations," past and present | 278 |
| Ch. 14 | The Black-Asian conflict? | 301 |
| Ch. 15 | Immigrant entrepreneurs and customers throughout the twentieth century | 315 |
| Ch. 16 | Straddling the color line : the legal construction of Hispanic identity in Texas | 341 |
| Ch. 17 | Black and brown in Compton : demographic change, suburban decline, and intergroup relations in a South Central Los Angeles community, 1950 to 2000 | 358 |
| Index | 377 |