Social science and ethnic options

Alba, Richard (1990) Ethnic Identity: The Transformation of White America . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Alba, Richard (2005) `Bright vs Blurred Boundaries: Second Generation Assimilation and Exclusion in France, Germany, and the United States', Ethnic and Racial Studies 28: 20-49.

DaCosta, Kimberly McClain (2007) Making Multiracials: State, Family and Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Jimenez, Tomas (2004) `Negotiating Ethnic Boundaries: Multiethnic Mexican Americans and Ethnic Identity in the United States', Ethnicities 4(1): 75-97.

Kibria, Nazli (2002) Becoming Asian American: Second Generation Chinese and Korean American Identities. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Lacy, Karyn (2004) `Black Places, Black Spaces: Strategic Assimilation and Identity Construction in Middle Class Suburbia', Ethnic and Racial Studies 27(6): 908-30.

Lieberson, Stanley and Mary C. Waters (1988) From Many Strands: Ethnic and Racial Groups in Contemporary America. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

McDermott, Monica (2006) Working Class White: The Making and Unmaking of Race Relations. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Perlmann, Joel and Mary C. Waters (eds) (2002) The New Race Question: How the Census Counts Multiracial Individuals. New York : Russell Sage Foundation.

Qian, Zhenchao and Daniel T. Lichter (2007) `Social Boundaries and Marital Assimilation: Interpreting Trends in Racial and Ethnic Intermarriage', American Sociological Review 72: 68-94.

Song, Miri (2003) Choosing Ethnic Identity. Cambridge : Polity Press.

Tuan, Mia (1998) Forever Foreigners or Honorary Whites? The Asian Experience Today. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Waters, Mary C. (1996) `Optional Ethnicities: For Whites Only?', in Silvia Pedraza and Ruben Rumbaut (eds) Origins and Destinies: Immigration, Race and Ethnicity in America, pp. 444-54. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

Waters, Mary C. (2002) `The Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity: Some Examples from Demography', in Nancy A. Denton and Stewart Tolnay (eds) American Diversity: A Demographic Challenge for the Twenty First Century , pp. 25-50. Albany: State University of New York Press .

Waters, Mary C. and Tomas Jimenez (2005) `Assessing Immigrant Assimilation: New Empirical and Theoretical Challenges', Annual Review of Sociology 31: 105-25.