Race, Migration and Identity: Shifting Boundaries in the USA

ISBN-13: 9781138854864 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 198 str.

Martin Bulmer; John Solomos

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Migrating race: migration and racial identification among Puerto Ricans  3. ‘I’m American, not Japanese!’: the struggle for racial citizenship among later-generation Japanese Americans  4. Are second-generation Filipinos ‘becoming’ Asian American or Latino? Historical colonialism, culture and panethnicity  5. Mexican Americans as a paradigm for contemporary intra-group heterogeneity  6. Segmented political assimilation: perceptions of racialized opportunities and Latino immigrants’ partisan identification  7. Defining immigrant newcomers in new destinations: symbolic boundaries in Williamsburg, Virginia  8. Skin tone, biracial stratification and tri-racial stratification among sperm donors  9. Body area dissatisfaction in white, black and Latina female college students in the USA: an examination of racially salient appearance areas and ethnic identity  10. Mediators of stereotype threat among black college students 

O autorze

Martin Bulmer is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey, UK. He is the author and editor of many books. His research interests cover the methodology of social research, the history of the social sciences, the study of ethnicity and race, the application of sociology to public policy, and the sociology of social care.

John Solomos is Professor of Sociology and Head of Department at the University of Warwick, UK. His most recent publications are Race, Multiculture and Social Policy (2013, with Alice Bloch and Sarah Neal) and Theories of Race and Ethnic Relations: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives (2013, with Karim Murji).