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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	New York : Russell Sage Foundation, c1996.
Description:	xiv, 497 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Ethnology -- California -- Los Angeles. Immigrants -- California -- Los Angeles. Pluralism (Social sciences) -- California -- Los Angeles. Cultural pluralism. Ethnic relations. Ethnology. Immigrants. Population. Race relations. Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Ethnic relations. Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Race relations. Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Population. California -- Los Angeles.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2467989

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Other authors / contributors:	Waldinger, Roger David. Bozorgmehr, Mehdi.
ISBN:	0871549018 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

1. The Making of a Multicultural Metropolis / Roger Waldinger and Mehdi Bozorgmehr
2. Historical Perspectives: Immigration and the Rise of a Distinctive Urban Region, 1900-1970 / John H. M. Laslett
3. Population Change: Immigration and Ethnic Transformation / Georges Sabagh and Mehdi Bozorgmehr
4. Residential Patterns: Avoidance, Assimilation, and Succession / William A. V. Clark
5. Language: Diversity and Assimilation / David E. Lopez
6. The Labor Market: Immigrant Effects and Racial Disparities / Paul Ong and Abel Valenzuela, Jr.
7. Self-Employment: Mobility Ladder or Economic Lifeboat? / Ivan Light and Elizabeth Roach
8. The Manufacturing Economy: Ethnic and Gender Divisions of Labor / Allen J. Scott
9. The Mexican-Origin Population: Permanent Working Class or Emerging Middle Class? / Vilma Ortiz
10. Central Americans: At the Bottom, Struggling to Get Ahead / David E. Lopez, Eric Popkin and Edward Telles
11. Asians: The "Model Minority" Deconstructed / Lucie Cheng and Philip Q. Yang
12. Middle Easterners: A New Kind of Immigrant / Mehdi Bozorgmehr, Claudia Der-Martirosian and Georges Sabagh
13. African Americans: Social and Economic Bifurcation / David M. Grant, Melvin L. Oliver and Angela D. James
14. Anglos: Beyond Ethnicity? / Roger Waldinger and Michael Lichter
15. Ethnicity and Opportunity in the Plural City / Roger Waldinger.

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