Zulema Valdez is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Merced, USA. She is the author of The New Entrepreneurs: How Race, Class, and Gender Shape American Enterprise (2011) and Entrepreneurs and the Search for the American Dream (2015).

Mary Romero is Professor of Justice Studies and Social Inquiry at Arizona State University, USA. She is the author of The Maid's Daughter: Living Inside and Outside the American Dream (2011) and Maid in the U.S.A. (1992, 2002).

Introduction to the special issue: intersectionality and entrepreneurship 1. Entrepreneurship and interracial dynamics: a case study of self-employed Africans and Chinese in Guangzhou, China 2. New migrant businesses and their workers: developing, but not transforming, the ethnic economy 3. Intersectionality, the household economy, and ethnic entrepreneurship 4. Latino/a professionals as entrepreneurs: how race, class, and gender shape entrepreneurial incorporation 5. Economic empathy in family entrepreneurship: Mexican-origin street vendor children and their parents 6. Race, gender, and class in entrepreneurship: intersectional counterframes and black business owners 7. A critical race theory approach to black American entrepreneurship

This book applies an intersectional perspective to the study of ethnic entrepreneurship. Against the traditional approach's emphasis on ethnicity and its primacy, the studies in this volume recognize that multiple dimensions of identity intermix to condition entrepreneurial outcomes. Starting with the premise that systems of oppression and privilege are endemic to the American social structure, the works in this volume recognize that these interlocking systems of inequality condition the life chances of entrepreneurs from diverse social locations differently, even among members of the same ethnic group. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.