Waters, Mary C. 2012. Racial and Ethnic Diversity and Public Policy. In Inequality: Five Debates About What is to be Done, David Grusky and Kricheli-Katz, Tamar. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Waters, Mary C, Patrick J Carr, Maria J Kefalas, and Jennifer Holdaway. 2011. Coming of Age in America: The Transition to Adulthood in the Twenty-First Century. Berkeley: University of California Press. Website

Waters, Mary C. 2011. Debating Immigration: Are We Addressing the Right Issues?. In Writing Immigration: Scholars and Journalists in Dialogue. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Waters, Mary C, Patrick J Carr, and Maria J Kefalas. 2011. Introduction. In Coming of Age in America: The Transition to Adulthood in Twenty First Century. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Alba, Richard, Philip Kasinitz, and Mary C Waters. 2011. The Kids Are (Mostly Alright): Second Generation Assimilation. Social Forces 89, no. 3.

Alba, Richard, and Mary C Waters. 2010. Dimensions of Second-Generation Incorporation: An Introduction. In The Next Generation: Immigrant Youth in Comparative Perspective, Richard Alba and Waters, Mary C. New York: New York University Press.

Waters, Mary C, and Philip Kasinitz. 2010. Discrimination, Race Relations and the Second Generation. Social Research 77, no. 1: 101-132. pdf

Rhodes, Jean, Christian Chan, Christina Paxson, Cecelia Rouse, Mary C Waters, and Elizabeth Fussell. 2010. The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on the Mental and Physical Health of Low-Income Parents in New Orleans. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 80, no. 2: 233-243. pdf

Waters, Mary C, and Richard Alba. 2010. The Next Generation: The Children of Immigrants in Europe and North America. New York: New York University Press. Website

Alba, Richard, Nancy Foner, Philip Kasinitz, Peter Kivisto, John H Mollenkopf, Ruben G Rumbaut, and Mary C Waters. 2010. Review Symposium: Generational Succession in the Big Apple. Ethnic and Racial Studies 2, no. 33: 336-357. pdf

Waters, Mary C. 2010. Second Generation Advantages: An Optimistic Story. In Helping Young Refugees and Immigrants Succeed, Gerhard Sonnert and Holton, Gerald. New York: Palgrave. Website

Waters, Mary C, Van Tran, Philip Kasinitz, and John H Mollenkopf. 2010. Segmented Assimilation Revisited: Types of Acculturation and Socioeconomic Mobility in Young Adulthood. Ethnic and Racial Studies 33, no. 7: 1168-93. pdf

Berlin, Gordon, Jr. Frank Furstenberg, and Mary C Waters. 2010. The Transition to Adulthood: Introducing the Issue. The Future of Children 20, no. 1: 3-18. pdf

Waters, Mary C, Gordon Berlin, and Jr. Frank Furstenberg. 2010. The Transition to Adulthood. Special Issue of The Future of Children. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution and Princeton University. Website

Waters, Mary C. 2009. Social Science and Ethnic Options. Ethnicities 9, no. 1: 130-135. pdf

Waters, Mary C, and Jennifer Sykes. 2009. Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child? First and Second Generation West Indian Child Rearing Practices. In Across Generations: Immigrant Families in America, Nancy Foner, 72-97. New York: New York University Press. Website

Waters, Mary C. 2008. The Challenges of Studying Political and Civic Incorporation. Applied Developmental Science 12, no. 2: 105-107. pdf

Waters, Mary C. 2008. Counting and Classifying by Race: The American Debate. The Tocqueville Review XXIX, no. 1: 1-21. pdf

Kasinitz, Phillip, John H Mollenkopf, Mary C Waters, and Jennifer Holdaway. 2008. Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age. New York and Cambridge: Russell Sage Foundation and Harvard University Press. Website

Waters, Mary C, and Zoua Vang. 2007. The Challenges of Immigration to Race Based Diversity Policies in the United States. In Diversity and Canada’s Future, Leslie Seidle, Bantin, Keith, and Courchene, Thoams, 411-450. Montreal: Institute for Research on Public Policy Press. pdf