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1 Diversity in the United States: Questions and Concepts
2 Assimilation and Pluralism
3 The Development of Dominant-Minority Group Relations
in Preindustrial America: The Origins of Slavery
4 Industrialization and Dominant-Minority Relations:
From Slavery to Segregation and the Coming of Postindustrial Society
5 African Americans: From Segregation to Modern Institutional Discrimination
and Modern Racism
6 Native Americans: From Conquest to Tribal Survival
in a Postindustrial Society
7 Hispanic Americans: Colonization, Immigration, and Ethnic Enclaves
8 Asian Americans: Are Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans
"Model Minorities"?
9 New Americans: Immigration and Assimilation
10 White Ethnic Groups: Assimilation and Identity The Twilight of Ethnicity?
11 Dominant-Minority Relations in Cross-National Perspective
12 Minority Groups and U.S. Society: Themes, Patterns, and the Future
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