Contents -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1. Historical Background, Theoretical Framework, and Sociodemographic Context -- 1. Introduction: Immigration and the Color Line in America -- 2. Theoretical Perspetives on Color Lines in the United States -- 3. What Is This Person's Race? The Census and the Construction of Racial Categories -- 4. Immigration and the Geography of the New Ethnoracial Diversity, with James D. Bachmeier and Zoya Gubernskaya -- Part 2. Individual Experiences of Diversity: From Multieraciality to Multiracial Identification -- 5. The Cultural Boundaries of Ethnoracial Status and Intermarriage -- 6. What About the Children? Interracial Families and Ethnoracial Identification -- 7. Who Is Multiracial? The Cultural Reproduction of the One-Drop Rule -- 8. From Racial to Ethnic Status: Claiming Ethnicity Through Culture -- Part 3. the Empirical and Policy Significance of Diversity: Generalization and Paradox -- 9. Ethnoracial Diversity, Minority-Group Threat, and Boundary Dissolution: Clarifying the Diversity Paradox, with James D. Bachmeier -- 10. Conclusion: The Diversity Paradox and Beyond (Plus Ca Change, Plus C'est la Meme Chose) -- Appendix: Methodological Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index.