Ethnic Los Angeles

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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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