Description |
viii, 334 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents |
Race, ethnicity and the construction of immigrant identities / Caroline B. Brettell -- Violence, migration, and becoming Igbo in Gustavus Vassa's Interesting narrative / Alexander X. Byrd -- Undue process : racial genealogies of immigrant detention / David Manuel Hernández -- The immigrant experiences of Dominican and Mexican women in the 1990s : crossing class, racial, and gender boundaries or temporary work spaces in New York City / Norma Fuentes -- Ethnic borders in American Muslim communities / Jamillah Karim -- Black ethnicity and racial community : African-Americans and West Indian immigrants in the United States / Alana C. Hackshaw -- Appalachian Mestizaje : race and Latino immigration in western North Carolina / Mariel Rose -- Job-hopping : social networks in the global high-tech industry / Johanna Shih -- Beyond the ethnic enclave : the effect of ethnic solidarity and market opportunity on white, Korean, Mexican, and Black enterprise / Zulema Valdez -- Separately together : co-ethnic employment among second-generation immigrants in the metropolitan New York labor market / Aviva Zeltzer-Zubida -- Immigrant selectivity, ethnic capital, and the reproduction of educational inequalities across borders / Cynthia Feliciano |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Minorities -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Ethnicity -- United States.
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Ethnic barriers -- United States.
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SUBJECT |
United States -- Race relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
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United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100075
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Author |
Brettell, Caroline.
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LC no. |
2006013876 |
ISBN |
9780739115695 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0739115693 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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