Contents:
1. American Identities in a Global Era
Donna Gabaccia and
Colin Wayne Leach Part One: The Local and the Nation in a Transnational World 2. Elusive Citizenship: Education, the Press and the Struggle over Representtaion in Ninteeth-Century Napa, California 1848-1910
Linda Heidenreich 3. The Prehistory of the Cadenú: Class, Corruption, and Migration in Santo Domingo, 1965-1978
Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof 4. Between Fantasy and Despair: the Transnational Condition and high-tech Immigration
A. Aneesh 5. Asian-Latinos: Japanese-Peruvians' Ethnic Adaptation and Social Mobility in New York abd Los Angeles
Ayumi Takenaka Part Two: Family, School and Popular Culture 6. Adopted Children's Identities at the China/US Border
Sara Dorow 7. Members of Many Gangs: Childhood and Ethno-racial Identity on the Streets of Twentieth Century America
Mark Wild 8. 'Becoming' and 'Being' Chinese American in College: A Look at Ethnicity, Social Class, and Neighborhood in Identity Development
Vivian Louie Part 3: Immigrant Labour 9. Workplace Identities and Collective Memory: Living and Remembering teh Effects of the Bracero Total Institution
Ronald L. Mize 10. The Significane of Race in the Urban Labour Market: A Study of Employers
Nelson Lim 11. 'Natural Mothers' for Sale: The Construction of Latina Immigrant Identity in Domestic Service Labour Markets
Kristen Hill Maher 12. The Work and the Wonder in Studying Immigrant Life Across the Disciplines: An Afterword
Colin Wayne Leach and
Donna R. Gabaccia