Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Approaches to the Study of the Persistence of Ethnicity -- 2. The Structure of Social Relationships among Japanese Americans -- 3. The Petit Bourgeois Economic Accommodation -- 4. The California Survey -- 5. Early Socialization Experiences of Nisei and Sansei -- 6. Friendship and Voluntary Association Membership in Ethnic and Nonethnic Communities -- 7. Economic Acitivities and Networks -- 8. Intermarriage -- 9. Political Attitudes and Participation -- 10. Persistence and Change in Perceived Social Boundaries -- 11. The Japanese American Experience and Undersetanding Ethnicity in the Modern World -- References -- Index.