| Contents |
The making of a multicultural metropolis / Roger Waldinger and Mehdi Bozorgmehr -- Historical perspectives : immigration and the rise of a distinctive urban region, 1900-1970 / John H.M. Laslett -- Population change : immigration and ethnic transformation / Georges Sabagh and Mehdi Bozorgmehr -- Residential patterns : avoidance, assimilation, and succession / William A.V. Clark -- Language : diversity and assimilation / David E. Lopez -- The labor market : immigrant effects and racial disparities / Paul Ong and Abel Valenzuela, Jr. -- Self-employment : mobility ladder or economic lifeboat? / Ivan Light and Elizabeth Roach -- The manufacturing economy : ethnic and gender divisions of labor / Allen J. Scott -- The Mexican-origin population : permanent working class or emerging middle class? / Vilma Ortiz -- Central Americans : at the bottom, struggling to get ahead / David E. Lopez, Eric Popkin, and Edward Telles -- Asians : the "model minoritity" deconstructed / Lucie Cheng and Philip Q. Yang -- Middle Easterners : a new kind of immigrant / Mehdi Bozorgmehr, Claudia Der-Martirosian, and Georges Sabagh -- African Americans : social and economic bifurcation / David M. Grant, Melvin L. Oliver, and Angela D. James -- Anglos : beyond ethnicity? / Roger Waldinger and Michael Lichter -- Ethinicity and opportunity in the plural city / Roger Waldinger. |
