ETHNIC LOS ANGELES

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• ISBN13: 9780871549013
• ISBN10: 0871549018
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1996-01-01
• Publisher: R-SAGE

Summary

Ethnic Los Angeles presents a multi-investigator study of Los Angeles's immigrant population. Using U.S. census data for the past three decades, essays on each of L.A.'s major ethnic groups tell us where these new Americans live and work, why they came to Los Angeles, and the nature of their families and social networks. The contributors also give a history of immigration policy and discuss the economic forces that have made the city a magnet for immigrants.

Table of Contents

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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