The causes and consequences of social mobility are a central area of study within social sciences, and the differing levels of economic development between ethnic groups is an issue of concern for policy-makers. This book provides a comparative analysis of these and related issues within the US and the UK. List of figures viii List of tables x List of contributors xiv Acknowledgements xvi Introduction 1(18) GLENN C. LOURY, TARIQ MODOOD, AND STEVEN M. TELES Part I Historical overviews 19(104) 1 Ruling an empire, governing a multinational state: the impact of Britain's historical legacy on the ethno-racial regime 21(29) MARY J. HICKMAN 2 American diversity and the 2000 census 50(17) NATHAN GLAZER 3 Four modes of ethno-somatic stratification: the experience of Blacks in Europe and the Americas 67(64) ORLANDO PATTERSON Part II Informal social networks 123(132) 4 Ethnicity as social capital: community-based institutions and embedded networks of social relations 131(29) MIN ZHOU 5 Intergenerational mobility and racial inequality in education and earnings 160(18) LINDA DATCHER LOURY 6 Social integration and social mobility: spatial segregation and intermarriage of the Caribbean population in Britain 178(26) CERI PEACH 7 Ghettos and the transmission of ethnic capital 204(18) DAVID M. CUTLER, EDWARD L. GLAESER, AND JACOB L. VIGDOR 8 Family formulation in multicultural Britain: diversity and change 222(40) RICHARD BERTHOUD Part III Formal structures 255(194) 9 Educational progress for African-Americans and Latinos in the United States from the 1950's to the 1990's: the interaction of ancestry and class 262(26) MICHAEL HOUT 10 The educational attainments of ethnic minorities in Britain 288(21) TARIQ MODOOD 11 Why America's black-white school achievement gap persists 309(33) RONALD F. FERGUSON 12 Networks and niches: the continuing significance of ethnic connections 342(21) ROGER WALDINGER 13 Nonwhite origins, Anglo destinations: immigrants in the USA and Britain 363(30) SUZANNE MODEL 14 Social mobility of ethnic minorities 393(21) ANTHONY HEATH AND DORREN McMAHON 15 Ethnic minorities, employment, self-employment, and social mobility in postwar Britain 414(35) VAUGHAN ROBINSON AND RINA VALENY Part IV Political institutions and processes 449(122) 16 Ethnicity and political mobilization in Britain 457(18) TARIQ MODOOD 17 Political institutions and minority mobility in the USA 475(23) PETER SKERRY 18 Race, state, and policy: the development of employment discrimination policy in the USA and Britain 498(24) ROBERT LIEBERMAN 19 Regime effects: ethnicity, social mobility, and public policy in the USA and Britain 522(49) STEVEN M. TELES, ROBERT MICKEY, AND FAWZIA S. AHMED Part V Normative analysis 571(47) 20 Race, inequality and justice in the USA: some social-philosophic reflections 573(29) GLENN C. LOURY 21 Achieving racial equality 602(16) BHIKHU PAREKH Author index 618(9) Subject index 627