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FrontMatter -- Contributors -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Introduction--Barney Cohen -- Section I--The Nature of Racial and Ethnic Differences -- 2 Racial and Ethnic Identification, Official Classifications, and Health Disparities--Gary D. Sandefur, Mary E. Campbell, and Jennifer Eggerling-Boeck -- 3 Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health and Mortality Among the U.S. Elderly Population--Robert A. Hummer, Maureen R. Benjamins, and Richard G. Rogers -- 4 Ethnic Differences in Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease--Jennifer J. Manly and Richard Mayeux -- Section II--Two Key Conceptual and Methodological Challenges -- 5 The Life-Course Contribution to Ethnic Disparities in Health--Clyde Hertzman -- 6 Selection Processes in the Study of Racial and Ethnic Differentials in Adult Health and Mortality--Alberto Palloni and Douglas C. Ewbank -- 7 Immigrant Health: Selectivity and Acculturation--Guillermina Jasso, Douglas S. Massey, Mark R. Rosenzweig, and James P. Smith -- Section III--The Search For Causal Pathways -- 8 Genetic Factors in Ethnic Disparities in Health--Richard S. Cooper -- 9 Race/Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, and Health--Eileen M. Crimmins, Mark D. Hayward, and Teresa E. Seeman -- 10 The Role of Social and Personal Resources in Ethnic Disparities in Late-Life Health--Carlos F. Mendes de Leon and Thomas A. Glass -- 11 What Makes a Place Healthy? Neighborhood Influences on Racial/ Ethnic Disparities in Health over the Life Course--Jeffrey D. Morenoff and John W. Lynch -- 12 Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health Behaviors: A Challenge to Current Assumptions--Marilyn A. Winkleby and Catherine Cubbin -- 13 Cumulative Psychosocial Risks and Resilience: A Conceptual Perspective on Ethnic Health Disparities in Late Life--Hector F. Myers and Wei-Chin Hwang.

Introduction / Martin Bulmer and John Solomos. -- The continuing significance of race?: teaching ethnic and racial studies in sociology / David Mason. -- Philosophy and racial identity / Linda Martín Alcoff. -- The symbolic empire and the history of racial inequality / Caroline Knowles. -- The historiography of immigrants and ethnic minorities: Britain compared with the USA / Panikos Panayi. -- Teaching race in cultural studies: a ten-step programme of personal development / Gargi Bhattacharyya. -- Ethnicity etcetera: social anthropological points of view / Richard Jenkins. -- 'Race' in psychology: teaching the subject / Karen Henwood and Ann Phoenix. -- Political science encounters 'race' and 'ethnicity' / Rupert Taylor. -- 'The approval of headquarters': race and ethnicity in English studies / Maria Lauret. -- Constructions of 'race', place and discipline: geographies of 'racial' identity and racism / Alastair Bonnett. -- Peopling the past: approaches to 'race' and ethnicity in archaeology / Sian Jones

Contents -- List of Tables -- 1. Measuring Ethnic Ancestry -- 2. The Ethnic and Racial Composition of the United States -- 3. Spatial Patterns -- 4. Cultural Differences -- 5. Economic Attainment -- 6. Intermarriage -- 7. Intermarriage: Causes and Choices -- 8. Conclusions: The Present and the Future -- Bibliography -- Appendix -- Name Index -- Subject Index