The Twenty-First Century: we will all be minorities
I: PATTERNS: ETHNICITY VERSUS RACE: The emergence of an American ethnic pattern / Nathan Glazer
Reflections on racial patterns in America / Ronald Takaki
II: NATIONAL IDENTITY: THE MASTER NARRATIVE OF AMERICAN HISTORY AND ITS DISCONTENTS: The significance of the frontier in American history / Frederick Jackson Turner
The significance of the frontier in Native American history / Ronald Takaki
The clash of civilizations: in the world and in the U.S. / Samuel P. Huntington
Reinventing "America": call for a new national identity/ Elizabeth Martinez
III: CLASS: BELOW THE DECK OF THE PEQUOD: Origins of the Southern labor system / Oscar and Mary F. Handlin
Why the switch to slavery: fears of rebellious White workers / Ronald Takaki
The paradoxical tragedy of White and Black laborers in the South / W. E. B. DuBois
Organized labor and civil rights / Harvard Sitkoff
Racial domination and class conflict in capitalist agriculture: the Oxnard Sugar Beet Workers' Strike of 1903 / Tomas Almaguer
Immigrants and workfare workers / Grace Chang
IV: DIVERSITIES WITHIN: GENDER AND OTHER DIFFERENCES: A bridge to college for Jewish sons: daughters in the sweatshops / Susan A. Glenn
Double discrimination for Puerto Rican women / Lourdes Miranda King
Race, class, and gender: prospects for an all-inclusive sisterhood / Bonnie Thorton Dill
Stories from the homefront: perspectives of Asian American parents with lesbian daughters and gay sons / Alice Y. Hom
Voices from the movement: approaches to multiraciality / Cynthia L. Nakashima
V: POLICIES: STRATEGIES AND SOLUTIONS: The Negro today is like the immigrant yesterday / Irving Kristol
The Black community: race and class / William Julius Wilson
The limits of immigration / Robert J. Samuelson
Fear of foreigners: immigrants as scapegoats for domestic woes / Gregory Defreitas
What to do about crime / James Q. Wilson
What to do and not do do about crime / Elliott Currie
Ending affirmative action / Pete Wilson
Defending affirmative action / Chang-Lin Tien
American Blacks, it turns out, are not like the immigrants of yesterday / Nathan Glazer
VI: PROSPECTS: The return to the melting pot / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
A different mirror: multicultural ties that bind America / Ronald Takaki.
