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| 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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