Ethnicity, Social Mobility, and Public Policy - Comparing the USA and UK

This major comparative study of the social mobility of ethnic minorities in the US and UK argues that social mobility must be understood as a complex and multi-dimensional phenomenon, incorporating the wealth and income of groups, but also their political power and social recognition. Written by leading sociologists, economists, political scientists, geographers, and philosophers in both countries, the volume addresses issues as diverse as education, work and employment, residential concentration, political mobilisation, public policy and social networks, while drawing larger lessons about the meaning of race and inequality in the two countries. While finding that there are important similarities in the experience of ethnic, and especially immigrant, groups in the two countries, the volume also concludes that the differences between the US and UK, especially in the case of American blacks, are equally important. Contents
Introduction Glenn C. Loury, Tariq Modood and Steven M. Teles
Part I. Historical Overviews: 1. Ruling an empire, governing a multi-national state: the impact of Britains historical legacy on the ethno-racial regime Mary Hickman
2. American diversity and the 2000 Census Nathan Glazer
3. Four modes of ethno-somatic stratification: the experience of blacks in Europe and the Americas Orlando Patterson
Part II. Informal Social Networks: 4. Ethnicity as social capital: community-based institutions and embedded networks of social relations Min Zhou
5. Intergenerational mobility and racial inequality in education and earnings Linda Loury
6. Social integration and social mobility: spatial segregation and intermarriage of the Caribbean population in Britain Ceri Peach
7. Ghettos and the transmission of ethnic capital David Cutler, Edward Glaeser and Jacob Vigdor
8. Family formulation in multi-cultural Britain: diversity and change Richard Berthoud
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 Michael Hout
10. The educational attainments of ethnic minorities in Britain Tariq Modood
11. Why Americas black-white school achievement gap persists Ronald Ferguson
12. Networks and niches: the continuing significance of ethnic connections Roger Waldinger
13. Non-white origins, anglo destinations: immigrants in the US and Britain Suzanne Model
14. Ethnic differences in the British labor market: the role of education and social class origins Anthony Heath and Dorren McMahon
15. Ethnic minorities, employment, self-employment and social mobility in post-war Britain Vaughan Robinson and Rina Valeny
Part IV. Political Institutions and Processes: 16. Ethnicity and political mobilisation in Britain Tariq Modood
17. Political institutions and minority mobility in the United States Peter Skerry
18. Race, state and policy: the development of employment discrimination policy in the United States and Britain Robert Lieberman
19. Regime effects: ethnicity, social mobility and public policy in the US and Britain Steven M. Teles, Robert Mickey and Fawzia Ahmed
Part V. Normative Analysis: 20. Race, inequality and justice in the United States: some social-philosophic reflections Glenn C. Loury
21. Achieving racial equality Bhikhu Parekh.

Author/Editor Details
Edited by: Glenn C. Loury, Boston University
Edited by: Tariq Modood, University of Bristol
Edited by: Steven M. Teles, Brandeis University, Massachusetts