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• In this paper top demographer Ceri Peach looks at the contrasting patterns in where ethnic minorities live on the two sides of the Atlantic.

• In this analysis (coming soon) quantitative sociologist Yaojun Li compares the way British and American minorities work.

• Here Ed Fieldhouse and David Cutts analyse how diversity affects community life on the two sides of the Atlantic

• Dan Hopkins explores how political debate and media coverage shape this effect on communities?

• And Mary Waters provides a background analysis of how race and migration in Britain and the US

The charts underpinning our political analysis are also available. The chapter from the book which explains them is found here.

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Figure 7.1: No instant Thatcher effect in 1975: Women in the Commons after successive general elections

Source: House of Commons Research Papers 01/75 & 05/33

Figure 7.2: Growth at the grassroots: black elected officials in the US and minority ethnic councillors in England

Source: American figures from Bositis (2003) for 1970-2001 and from Bositis (2008) for 2007. English figures from 1997 onwards from the census of councillors (National Foundation for Educational Research, 2009); figure for 1986 an approximate estimate form Gyford et al (1989), p48.

Figure 7.3: African Americans secure a bigger share of political offices than minorities in the UK

Source: calculations based on Bositis (2008) for the US, and on National Foundation for Educational Research (2009) for England.

Figure 7.4: The growing proportion of African American state legislators who represent non-minority districts

Figure 7.5: Americans increasingly approve of interracial marriage

Source: Gallup. Available at http://www.gallup.com/poll/28417/Most-Americans-Approve-Interracial-Marriages.aspx

Note: there are some changes in the exact question asked over time; see the above link for details.

Figure 7.6a: Britons increasingly at ease with blacks marrying into their family, as well as with working for a black boss

Figure 7.6b: Americans grow more comfortable with black marrying into their family at similar rate

Source: UK data from Ford (2008) based on British Social Attitudes; US data from the General Social Survey.

Figure 7.7: Respondents born in earlier decades are far more likely to oppose a black spouse marrying into their family

Source: US Data from General Social Survey, 1990-2006; British data from British Attitudes Survey, 1983-96

Figure 7.8: Evolving opposition to a black marrying into the family among two generations.

 Source: US data from General Social Survey, 1990-2006