Contents -- On the Fourth of July in Sitka -- Introduction: The Invention of Ethnicity -- An American Writer -- A Plea for Fictional Histories and Old-Time "Jewesses" -- Ethnicity as Festive Culture: Nineteenth-Century German America on Parade -- Defining the Race 1890-1930 -- Anzia Yezierska and the Making of an Ethnic American Self -- Deviant Girls and Dissatisfied Women: A Sociologist's Tale -- Ethnic Trilogies: A Genealogical and Generational Poetics -- Blood in the Marketplace: The Business of Family in the Godfather Narratives -- Comping for Count Basie -- "Is Ethnicity Obsolete?" -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.