"Mary Waters' admirable study of Americans' ethnic choices produces a rich social-scientific yield. Its theoretical interest derives from the American irony tha

Defining and changing perceptions of ethnic identity.

At present, the picture of the ethnic media is an incomplete one: While there is significant material on the portrayal of ethnic minorities in the mainstream me

Examines the changing role of ethnicity in the lives of Americans from a broad range of European backgrounds and the formation of a new European-American ethnic

In this highly original work, Jason D. Hill argues that strong racial, ethnic, and national identities function according to a separatist logic that does irrepa