Reshaping Ethnic Relations

Judith Goode is Professor of Anthropology and Affiliated Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University. She has co-authored several books on topics related to urban anthropology, including The Anthropology of the City.

• Maps Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Part I: The Citywide Context 2. The Political Economy of Philadelphia 3. The Effects of New Immigration on Social Categories and Human-Relations Institutions Part II: Life in the Neighborhoods 4. Neighborhood Structures and Community Organizations 5. Everyday Activities: Personal Ties and Structured Institutions 6. Focus Events Part III: Restructuring Diversity 7. Simultaneous Contradictions 8. Strategies for Action Notes Bibliography Index

"[A] more realistic representation of the increasingly diverse nature of life in American cities."-International Migration Review "[T]his is an excellent book that I would like to be able to use in courses about race and ethnicity at both the graduate and undergraduate level. The ideas are very worthwhile, carefully documented, and well thought through."-Anthropology and Education Quarterly