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| Preface to the First Edition | |
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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| First Edition Acknowledgements | |
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| Second Edition Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The ontological status of the term 'ethnicity' | |
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| An example of groups and names | |
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| Fixed categories and diffuse identities | |
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| Do people act by reference to their ethnic identity? | |
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| Ethnic cleansing or racial segregation? | |
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| Ethnos: Descent and Culture Communities | |
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| Shared references | |
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| Stock, type, people, breed | |
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| Nation | |
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| Race | |
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| The demise of race | |
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| Culture and ethnicity are not the same | |
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| Defining the core and the divergences | |
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| Summary | |
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| Multiple Discourses of Ethnicity: Differences by Country and Region | |
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| The USA | |
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| Immigration to the USA | |
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| Changes of the late twentieth century | |
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| Ethnicity and changing ideas of race | |
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| Where have all the races gone? The case of the UK | |
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| Discourse of races in postcolonial Malaysia | |
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| Asia and Latin America | |
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| Ethnic classification across the world | |
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| Summary: ethnicity and nation in their place | |
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| The Demise of Race: The Emergence of 'Ethnic' | |
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| Ethnic group (ethnie) and nation | |
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| The demise of race | |
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| Scholarly, popular and political ideas | |
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| Lloyd Warner American ethnic groups | |
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| The scholarly tradition: Max Weber and ethnic groups | |
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| Anthropology and social anthropology | |
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| Real groups | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Primordialism Debate | |
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| Primordialism | |
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| 'Primordial' as a sociological concept | |
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| Edward Shils and primordial, personal, sacred and civil ties | |
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| Clifford Geertz and the integrative revolution | |
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| After Geertz | |
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| Judith Nagata and mobilized identities | |
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| Summary: primordial ethnic groups | |
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| How Real are Groups? Political Ethnicity, Symbolic Ethnicity and Competition Theory | |
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| Cultures and boundaries | |
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| Competition theory | |
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| Class as a complicating factor in ethnic competition analysis; ethnicity as a complicating factor in class analysis | |
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| Critiques of groupism | |
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| Summary | |
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| Migration and Ethnicity | |
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| Forced migrations | |
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| Migrants and plural societies | |
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| World migration | |
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| Internal migrants | |
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| Professional migrations | |
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| Undocumented workers | |
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| Migration, gender and family | |
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| Questions of integration and citizenship | |
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| The case of the USA: migration and ethnicity in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries | |
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| America's growing Hispanic population | |
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| Hispanics and Mexican Americans: social profiles | |
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| Likely futures for new migrants and their families and for American ethnicities | |
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| The renewed debate about the concept of assimilation | |
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| Occupational structure: the hourglass labour market | |
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| Summary: the opposing views | |
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| Social Conditions of Ethnicity: Global Economy and Precarious States | |
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| Theorizing the conditions of ethnic action | |
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| Features of the contemporary world | |
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| Postcolonial economic conditions | |
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| William Julius Wilson and The disappearance of work | |
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| Economic change and Hispanic migration into the USA | |
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| Precarious, factionalized, democratizing states: unstable geopolitical conditions | |
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| Ethnic conflict, violence, insecurity and the state | |
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| Ethnicity and geopolitics | |
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| Post-Soviet Russia | |
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| Summary | |
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| Ethnic Majorities and Nationalism in Europe: Globalization and Right-Wing Movements | |
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| The nation | |
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| Nation, class and resentment | |
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| Nation and majority | |
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| Class, welfare, the state and immigrants | |
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| Right-wing movements in Europe | |
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| Multiculturalism and identity politics | |
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| Summary: reflections on nation, resentment and identity | |
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| Ethnicity and the Modern World: General Conclusions | |
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| A theory of ethnicity? | |
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| Ethnicity as theory | |
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| Sociology of ethnicity: identity and action in context | |
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| Late capitalism and the modern social world | |
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| The contradictions of late capitalist modernity | |
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| Individualism | |
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| Two worlds - the liberal and the authoritarian | |
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| Four principal problematics | |
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| Modernity and ethnicity | |
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| Ethnicity in its place | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |