Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 New Race Politics: The Changing Face of the American Electoral Landscape -- A NEWIDENTITY POLITICS IN A DYNAMIC RACIAL ENVIRONMENT? -- ECHOES OF OUR PAST AS A NATION OF IMMIGRANTS -- THE ELECTORAL CONSEQUENCES OF IMMIGRATION -- MOBILIZING IMMIGRANT AND MINORITY VOTING -- UNDERSTANDING NEW RACE POLITICS: OUTLINE OF CHAPTERS -- 2 In Whose Interest?: Political Parties, Context, and the Incorporation of Immigrants -- IMMIGRANT POLITICAL INCORPORATION IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY -- PARTIES AND IMMIGRANTS IN THE EARLY TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY -- NONPARTY GROUPS AND IMMIGRANT INCORPORATION -- PARTIES OPTING OUT: A CASE STUDY OF LOCAL POLITICS IN SYRACUSE -- CONTEXTUAL FACTORS AND POLITICAL INCORPORATION -- IN WHOSE INTEREST? THE FUTURE OF IMMIGRANT POLITICAL INCORPORATION -- 3 Beyond Black and White: The Experiences and Effects of Economic Status among Racial and Ethnic Minorities -- GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS AMONG AFRICAN AMERICANS, LATINOS, AND ASIAN AMERICANS -- A THEORY OF OPPORTUNITIES AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS -- TESTING THE THEORY OF OPPORTUNITIES -- RACIAL AND ETHNIC GROUP INTERESTS -- ECONOMIC STATUS -- PERCEPTION OF OPPORTUNITIES -- PERSONAL EXPERIENCE OF DISCRIMINATION -- THE EFFECT OF ECONOMIC STATUS ON SUPPORT FOR GROUP INTERESTS -- ATTENTION TO RACE -- AFFIRMATIVE ACTION -- GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS TO ENSURE EQUALITY -- THE VARIED EXPERIENCES OF ECONOMIC STATUS -- SPECIFYING THE EFFECTS OF ECONOMIC STATUS -- ATTENTION TO RACE -- AFFIRMATIVE ACTION -- GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS TO ENSURE EQUALITY -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX -- Dependent Variables -- Independent Variables -- 4 Activity amid Diversity: Asian American Political Participation -- APPLYING TRADITIONAL MODELS OF PARTICIPATION TO ASIAN AMERICANS.

THE IMPACT OF MINORITY GROUP STATUS, IMMIGRATION, AND ETHNIC ORIGIN -- EXPLAINING ASIAN AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTICIPATION -- THE CONTOURS OF ASIAN AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTICIPATION -- ASIAN AMERICAN ACTIVITY AMID DIVERSITY -- 5 Get Me to the Polls on Time: Coethnic Mobilization and Latino Turnout -- DOES THE SHOE FIT? TRADITIONAL MODELS AND LATINO VOTING -- LATINOS AND THE 2000 ELECTION -- California -- Florida -- Texas -- Illinois -- New York -- LATINO COETHNIC MOBILIZATION IN THE 2000 ELECTION -- Direct Effects of Ethnic Mobilization -- GETTING LATINOS TO THE POLLS -- 6 Se Habla Espanol: Ethnic Campaign Strategies and Latino Voting Behavior -- TARGETING LATINO VOTERS -- THE IMPACT OF ETHNIC CAMPAIGN COMMUNICATIONS -- MOBILIZING THE LATINO VOTE -- 7 Structuring Group Activism: A Macro Model of Black Participation -- BEYOND THE INDIVIDUAL LEVEL -- SITUATING BLACK ACTIVISM -- TRENDS IN BLACK POLITICAL PARTICIPATION -- STRUCTURING ACTIVISM -- 8 Black Elites and Latino Immigrant Relations in a Southern City: Do Black Elites and the Black Masses Agree? -- RACE RELATIONS IN A SOUTHERN CITY -- ELITE INFLUENCE ON BLACK ATTITUDES -- DO BLACK ELITES AND THE BLACK MASSES AGREE? -- ATTITUDES AMONG BLACK ELITES AND MASSES IN DURHAM -- APPENDIX A: METHODS FOR CODING AND ANALYZING ELITE DATA -- APPENDIX B: QUESTION WORDING FOR 2003 DURHAM SURVEY OF INTERGROUP RELATIONS (DSIR) -- 9 Understanding the New Race Politics: Conclusions and Challenges -- CHALLENGES FOR POLITICAL SCIENCE -- References -- Index.

This book explores the impact and political consequences of immigration on American electoral politics.

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