Celebrating 40 Years of Ethnic and Racial Studies

Introduction: Reflections on classic papers in Ethnic and Racial Studies 1. Symbolic ethnicity: the future of ethnic groups and cultures in America 2. Symbolic ethnicity and Herbert Gans: race, religion, and politics in the twenty-first century 3. Another look at symbolic ethnicity 4. The twilight of ethnicity among Americans of European ancestry: the case of Italians 5. The origins of "new assimilation theory" 6. Continuities in assimilation 7. Masculinity and nationalism: gender and sexuality in the making of nations 8. Sex, violence and nationalism 9. The continuing significance of masculinity 10. The tie that binds: race, gender and US violence 11. On violence, intersectionality and transversal politics 12. The study of transnationalism: pitfalls and promise of an emergent research field 13. Transnationalism reloaded: the historical trajectory of a concept 14. Commentary on the study of transnationalism: pitfalls and promise of an emergent research field 15. When work disappears: new implications for race and urban poverty in the global economy 16. Race, class, politics, and the disappearance of work 17. Race, class, politics, and the disappearance of work: a rejoinder 18. Transnational migration and the redefinition of the state: Variations and explanations 19. Transnationalism and the state: recurring themes and new directions 20. Rethinking 'transnational migration and the redefinition of the state' or what to do about (semi-) permanent impermanence 21. Why migration policies fail 22. Towards a new politics of migration? 23. Migration policies are problematic - because they are about migration 24. The 'diaspora' diaspora 25. Beyond the "The 'diaspora' diaspora": a response to Rogers Brubaker 26. Revisiting "The 'diaspora' diaspora" 27. Super-diversity and its implications 28. Mooring "super-diversity" to a brutal migration milieu 29. Mooring, migration milieus and complex explanations 30. The future of whiteness: a map of the 'third wave' 31. Surfing the third wave of whiteness studies: reflections on Twine and Gallagher 32. From wave to tsunami: the growth of third wave whiteness