Contents
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Part I. Introduction
Chapter 1. The Making of a Multicultural Metropolis / Roger Waldinger and Mehdi Bozorgmehr
Chapter 2. Historical Perspectives: Immigration and the Rise of a Distinctive Urban Region, 1900-1970 / John H. M. Laslett
Part II. Changing Demographics, 1970-1990
Chapter 3. Population Change: Immigration and Ethnic Transformation / Georges Sabagh and Mehdi Bozorgmehr
Chapter 4. Residential Patterns: Avoidance, Assimilation, and Succession / William A. V. Clark
Chapter 5. Language: Diversity and Assimilation / David E. Lopez
Chapter 6. The Labor Market: Immigrant Effects and Racial Disparities / Paul Ong and Abel Valenzuela, Jr.
Chapter 7. Self-Employment: Mobility Ladder or Economic Lifeboat? / Ivan Light and Elizabeth Roach
Chapter 8. The Manufacturing Economy: Ethnic and Gender Divisions of Labor / Allen J. Scott
Part III. Major Ethnic Groups
Chapter 9. The Mexican-Origin Population: Permanent Working Class or Emerging Middle Class? / Vilma Ortiz
Chapter 10. Central Americans: At the Bottom, Struggling to Get Ahead / David E. Lopez, Eric Popkin, and Edward Telles
Chapter 11. Asians: The "Model Minority" Deconstructed / Lucie Cheng and Philip Q. Yang
Chapter 12. Middle Easterners: A New Kind of Immigrant / Mehdi Bozorgmehr, Claudia Der-Martirosian, and Georges Sabagh
Chapter 13. African Americans: Social and Economic Bifurcation / David M. Grant, Melvin L. Oliver, and Angela D. James
Chapter 14. Anglos: Beyond Ethnicity? / Roger Waldinger and Michael Lichter
Part IV. Conclusion
Chapter 15. Ethnicity and Opportunity in the Plural City / Roger Waldinger
Appendix: Sources of Data, Group Definitions, and Measures
Index