Ethnicity, Social Mobility, and Public Policy: Comparing the USA and UK Book

Introduction
Part I. Historical Overviews:
1. Ruling an empire, governing a multi-national state: the impact of Britain s historical legacy on the ethno-racial regime
2. American diversity and the 2000 Census
3. Four modes of ethno-somatic stratification: the experience of blacks in Europe and the Americas

Part II. Informal Social Networks:
4. Ethnicity as social capital: community-based institutions and embedded networks of social relations
5. Intergenerational mobility and racial inequality in education and earnings
6. Social integration and social mobility: spatial segregation and intermarriage of the Caribbean population in Britain
7. Ghettos and the transmission of ethnic capital
8. Family formulation in multi-cultural Britain: diversity and change

Part III. Formal Structures:
9. Educational progress for African Americans and Latinos in the United States from the 1950s to the 1990s: the interaction of ancestry and class
10. The educational attainments of ethnic minorities in Britain
11. Why America s black-white school achievement gap persists
12. Networks and niches: the continuing significance of ethnic connections
13. Non-white origins, anglo destinations: immigrants in the US and Britain
14. Ethnic differences in the British labor market: the role of education and social class origins
15. Ethnic minorities, employment, self-employment and social mobility in post-war Britain

Part IV. Political Institutions and Processes:
16. Ethnicity and political mobilisation in Britain
17. Political institutions and minority mobility in the United States
18. Race, state and policy: the development of employment discrimination policy in the United States and Britain
19. Regime effects: ethnicity, social mobility and public policy in the US and Britain

Part V. Normative Analysis:
20. Race, inequality and justice in the United States: some social-philosophic reflections
21. Achieving racial equality.