Contents:
  • Understanding ethnicity and ethnic incorporation in the United States
  • The subordination of Irish Catholics and African Americans
  • Identity, solidarity and culture : Irish Catholics and African Americans
  • Boston and Chicago and the rise of Kennedy and Obama
  • Ethnic men : the Al Smith and Jesse Jackson campaigns
  • The incorporation of the Catholic Irish, and the semi-incorporation of African Americans
  • Kennedy and Obama : charisma, character and ethnic identity
  • Religion and the election of 1960
  • Race and the election of 2008
  • The politics of ethnic avoidance in the Kennedy and Obama administrations.