• In the Shadow of Race: Jews, Latinos, and Immigrant Politics in the United States. University of Chicago Press. Awarded the Ralph Bunche Award from the American Political Science Association (2007).
• "Ethnicity: An American Genealogy," in Nancy Foner and George M. Fredrickson (eds.), Not Just Black and White: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States (2004)
• "Whiteness: Theorizing Race, Eliding Ethnicity," International Labor and Working-Class History (2001)
• Labor Visions and State Power: The Origins of Business Unionism in the United States (1993).

2007
Ralph Bunche Award from the American Political Science Association for In the Shadow of Race.

2000-2001
Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Sciences, Princeton.

1997-98
Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation.