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Taylor & Francis Race Migration and Identity Shifting Boundaries in the USA 2015 Edition by Martin Bulmer, John Solomos
The chapters in this collection cover diverse aspects of the changing meanings and boundaries of race, migration and identity in the contemporary United States. The situation in the USA has been the subject of intense policy and political debate over the past decades and the papers in this volume provide an important insight from a wide range of analytical perspectives. They provide an insight into the changing dynamics of race and migration in the contemporary environment, combining conceptual analysis with original empirical research. The concerns of this volume address global questions of relevance as well as those specific to the USA. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies. Table of contents :- 1. Introduction Martin Bulmer and John Solomos2. Migrating race: migration and racial identification among Puerto Ricans Carlos Vargas-Ramos3. 'I'm American, not Japanese!': the struggle for racial citizenship among later-generation Japanese Americans Takeyuki Tsuda4. Are second-generation Filipinos 'becoming' Asian American or Latino? Historical colonialism, culture and panethnicityAnthony C. Ocampo5. Mexican Americans as a paradigm for contemporary intra-group heterogeneity Richard Alba, Tomas R. Jimenez and Helen B. Marrow6. Segmented political assimilation: perceptions of racialized opportunities and Latino immigrants' partisan identification Frank Samson7. Defining immigrant newcomers in new destinations: symbolic boundaries in Williamsburg, VirginiaDeenesh Sohoni and Jennifer Bickham Mendez8. Skin tone, biracial stratification and tri-racial stratification among sperm donorsCarol S. Walther9. Body area dissatisfaction in white, black and Latina female college students in the USA: an examination of racially salient appearance areas and ethnic identityCortney S. Warren10. Mediators of stereotype threat among black college students Douglas S. Massey and Jayanti Owens