Perlmann, Joel, and Mary C Waters. 2002. The New Race Question: How the Census Counts Multiracial Individuals. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Publisher's Version

Waters, Mary C. 2001. “Growing Up West Indian and African American: Gender and Class Differences in the Second Generation.” Islands in the City: West Indian Migration to New York, edited by Nancy Foner, 193-215. University of California Press. Publisher's Version

Waters, Mary C. 2000. “Multiple Heritage Families in the United States: Patterns and Puzzles in Identity Choices.” We Are a People: Narrative in the Construction and Deconstruction of Ethnic Identity, edited by Paul Spickard and Jeffrey W Burroughs, 23-40. Temple University Press.

Waters, Mary C. 2000. “The Sociological Roots and Multidisciplinary Future of Immigration Research.” Immigrant Research for a New Century: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Nancy Foner, Ruben Rumbaut, and Steven Gold, 44-48. Russell Sage Foundation.

Waters, Mary C, and Carolyn Boyes Watson. 2000. “The Promise of Diversity.” Boston Review 25 (6). Publisher's Version

Waters, Mary C. 2000. “Immigration, Intermarriage and the Challenges of Measuring Racial and Ethnic Identities.” American Journal of Public Health 90 (11): 1735-1737. Publisher's Version

Waters, Mary C. 1999. “Explaining the Comfort Factor: West Indian Immigrants Confront American Race Relations.” The Cultural Territories of Race: Black and White Boundaries, edited by Michele Lamont, 63-96. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Waters, Mary C. 1999. “Immigrant Dreams and American Realities: The Causes and Consequences of the Ethnic Labor Market in American Cities.” Work and Occupations 26 (3): 352-364. Publisher's Version

Waters, Mary C. 1999. “Sociology and the Study of Immigration.” American Behavioral Scientist 42 (9): 1264-1267. Publisher's Version

Waters, Mary C. 1999. “West Indians and African Americans at Work: Structural Differences and Cultural Stereotypes.” Immigration and Opportunity: Race, Ethnicity and Employment in the United States, edited by Frank Bean and Stephanie Bell Rose, 194-227. Russell Sage Foundation.

Waters, Mary C. 1999. Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Publisher's Version

Waters, Mary C. 1998. “Multiple Ethnic Identities and Identity Choices: Implications for American Pluralism.” Beyond Pluralism: The Conception of Groups and Group Identities in America, edited by Wendy Katkin, Ned Landsman, and Andrea Tyrée, 28-46. University of Illinois Press.

Waters, Mary C. 1998. “Mexican Migration.” Crossings: Mexican Immigration in Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, 106-109. Harvard University Press.

Waters, Mary C. 1997. “Immigrant Families at Risk: Factors that Undermine Chances for Success.” Immigration and the Family: Research and Policy on U.S. Immigrants, edited by Alan Booth, 65-84. Mahway, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers.

Waters, Mary C. 1996. “Review of Virginia R. Dominguez, White By Definition: Social Classification in Creole Louisiana (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1986).” Contemporary Sociology. Publisher's Version

Waters, Mary C. 1996. “Review of Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White (New York: Routledge, 1995).” Contemporary Sociology 25 (6): 749-751. Publisher's Version

Waters, Mary C. 1996. “Ethnic and Racial Groups in the USA: Conflict and Cooperation.” Ethnicity and Power in the Contemporary World, edited by Kumar Rupensinghe and Valery Tishkov, 236-262. Tokyo: United Nations Publishers.

Waters, Mary C. 1996. “Optional Ethnicities: For Whites Only?” Origins and Destinies: Immigration, Race and Ethnicity in America, edited by Sylvia Pedraza and Ruben Rumbaut, 444-454. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Press.

Waters, Mary C. 1996. “The Intersection of Gender, Race and Ethnicity in Identity Development of Caribbean American Teens.” Urban Adolescent Girls: Resisting Stereotypes, edited by Bonnie Leadbeater and Niobe Way, 65-84. New York University Press.

Waters, Mary C. 1995. “Review of Mary R. Jackman, The Velvet Glove: Paternalism and Conflict in Gender, Class and Race Relations (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994).” American Journal of Sociology 101 (1): 226-227. Publisher's Version