Race, Migration and Identity

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).

• 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