| Contributors | p. xi |
| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| Introduction: Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States: Social Constructions and Social Relations in Historical and Contemporary Perspective | p. 1 |
| Historical and Theoretical Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity | |
| Conceptual Confusions and Divides: Race, Ethnicity, and the Study of Immigration | p. 23 |
| Ethnicity: An American Genealogy | p. 42 |
| The Amplitude of Ethnic History: An American Story | p. 61 |
| The Great Migration, African Americans, and Immigrants in the Industrial City | p. 82 |
| Immigration and the Social Construction of Otherness: "Underclass" Stigma and Intergroup Relations | p. 100 |
| Immigration, Race, and the State | |
| American Gatekeeping: Race and Immigration Law in the Twentieth Century | p. 119 |
| The Census Counts, the Census Classifies | p. 145 |
| Panethnicity | |
| Making New Immigrants "Inbetween": Irish Hosts and White Panethnicity, 1890 to 1930 | p. 167 |
| The Formation of Latino and Latina Panethnic Identities | p. 197 |
| Asian American Panethnicity: Contemporary National and Transnational Possibilities | p. 217 |
| Socioeconomic Profiles and Trends | |
| Old and New Landscapes of Diversity: The Residential Patterns of Immigrant Minorities | p. 237 |
| Intermarriage Then and Now: Race, Generation, and the Changing Meaning of Marriage | p. 262 |
| Race, Assimilation, and "Second Generations," Past and Present | p. 278 |
| Intergroup Relations | |
| The Black-Asian Conflict? | p. 301 |
| Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Customers Throughout the Twentieth Century | p. 315 |
| Straddling the Color Line: The Legal Construction of Hispanic Identity in Texas | p. 341 |
| Black and Brown in Compton: Demographic Change, Suburban Decline, and Intergroup Relations in a South Central Los Angeles Community, 1950 to 2000 | p. 358 |
| Index | p. 377 |
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