Ethnic Los Angeles

Name: Ethnic Los Angeles
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ISBN: 9780871549020

ISBN-10: 0871549026

ISBN-13: 9780871549020

Edition: N/A

Authors: Roger Waldinger, Mehdi Bozorgmehr

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Since 1965 more immigrants have come to Los Angeles than anywhere else in the United States. These newcomers have rapidly and profoundly transformed the city's ethnic makeup and sparked heated debate over their impact on the region's troubled economy. Ethnic Los Angeles presents a multi-investigator study of L.A.'s immigrant population, exploring the scope, characteristics, and consequences of ethnic transition in the nation's second most populous urban center. Using the wealth of information contained in the U.S. censuses of 1970, 1980, and 1990, essays on each of L.A.'s major ethnic groups tell who the immigrants are, where they come from, the skills they bring and their sources of…

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List price: $27.50
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Contributors
The Making of a Multicultural Metropolis	p. 3
Historical Perspectives: Immigration and the Rise of a Distinctive Urban Region, 1900-1970	p. 39
Population Change: Immigration and Ethnic Transformation	p. 79
Residential Patterns: Avoidance, Assimilation, and Succession	p. 109
Language: Diversity and Assimilation	p. 139
The Labor Market: Immigrant Effects and Racial Disparities	p. 165
Self-Employment: Mobility Ladder or Economic Lifeboat?	p. 193
The Manufacturing Economy: Ethnic and Gender Divisions of Labor	p. 215
The Mexican-Origin Population: Permanent Working Class or Emerging Middle Class?	p. 247
Central Americans: At the Bottom, Struggling to Get Ahead	p. 279
Asians: The "Model Minority" Deconstructed	p. 305
Middle Easterners: A New Kind of Immigrant	p. 345
African Americans: Social and Economic Bifurcation	p. 379
Anglos: Beyond Ethnicity?	p. 413
Ethnicity and Opportunity in the Plural City	p. 445
Appendix: Sources of Data, Group Definitions, and Measures	p. 471
Index	p. 481
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