Constructing borders/crossing boundaries : race, ethnicity, and immigration /
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| Imprint: | Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2007. |
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| Description: | viii, 334 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6284143 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Race, Ethnicity, and the Construction of Immigrant Identities
- Part I. Race and Ethnicity: Categories, Labels, and the Construction of Identity
- Introduction to Part I
- 1. Violence, Migration, and Becoming Igbo in Gustavus Vassa's Interesting Narrative
- 2. Undue Process: Racial Genealogies of Immigrant Detention
- Part II. Race, Ethnicity, and Intergroup Relations
- Introduction to Part II
- 3. 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
- 4. Ethnic Borders in American Muslim Communities
- 5. Black Ethnicity and Racial Community: African-Americans and West Indian Immigrants in the United States
- 6. Appalachian Mestizaje: Race and Latino Immigration in Western North Carolina
- Part III. Ethnicity as a Resource
- Introduction to Part III
- 7. Job-Hopping: Social Networks in the Global High-Tech Industry
- 8. Beyond the Ethnic Enclave: The Effect of Ethnic Solidarity and Market Opportunity on White, Korean, Mexican, and Black Enterprise
- 9. Separately Together: Co-Ethnic Employment among Second-Generation Immigrants in the Metropolitan New York Labor Market
- 10. Immigrant Selectivity, Ethnic Capital, and the Reproduction of Educational Inequalities across Borders
- Index
- About the Editor and Contributors