Louise Lamphere

Structuring Diversity: Ethnographic Perspectives on the New Immigration Louise Lamphere

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: PrefaceIntroduction: The Shaping of DiversityLouise Lamphere1. The Price of a Good Steak: Beef Packing and Its Consequences for Garden City, KansasDonald D. Stull, Michael J. Broadway, and Ken C. Erickson2. On Machines and Bureaucracy: Controlling Ethic Interaction in Miami's Apparel and Construction IndustriesGuillermo J. Grenier, Alex Stepick, Debbie Draznin, Aline LaBorwit, and Steve Morris3. Life in Big Red: Struggles and Accommodations in a Chicago Polyethnic TenementDwight Conquergood4. Recent Economic Restructuring and Evolving Intergroup Relations in HoustonJacqueline Maria Hagan and Nestor P. Rodriguez5. Transcending Boundaries and Closing Ranks: How Schools Shape InterrelationsJudith G. Goode, Jo Anne Schneider, and Suzanne Blanc6. The Politics of Diversity in Monterey Park, CaliforniaJohn HortonContributorsIndexPublisher Marketing: Through ethnographic research, sociologists and anthropologists explore the interaction of America's newcomers with established residents in six cities. Their analysis highlights the importance of class and power as immigrants interact in the workplace, at home, at school, and in community organizations."Rich and unusual ethnographic accounts of everyday lives reveal how new immigrants learn to become citizens of a certain class and status. "Structuring Diversity" recasts the field as properly the study of late modernity. It is required reading for anyone interested in immigration and American society."--Aihwa Ong, University of California, Berkeley

Contributor Bio:  Lamphere, Louise Louise Lamphere has been a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico since 1986. She is also former president of the American Anthropological Association.