I found this book to be refreshing in its candor, brilliant in its creativity, and exciting in its ability to provide fresh insights into what appear to be timeless questions for Americans. I like the authors' approach, which blends history, structure, and theory. I would characterize it as scholarly, challenging, critical, and highly readable.

• PART I: THINKING ABOUT RACE AND ETHNICITY; 1: ETHNIC AND RACIAL DIMENSIONS; 2: TOWARD A CONCEPTUAL MAP OF ETHNIC RELATIONS; PART II: SOCIOLOGY MEETS HISTORY; 3: CONSTRUCTING WASP HEGEMONY AND THE RACIAL "OTHER" FROM COLONIAL AMERICA TO THE CIVIL WAR; 4: RECONFIGURING THE RACIAL DIVIDE: IMMIGRATION AND WHITE SUPREMACY, 1865-1950; PART III: YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND TOMORROW: FROM 1950 TO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY; 5: EUROPEAN AMERICANS: THE TWILIGHT OF ETHNICITY?; 6: AFRICAN AMERICANS: THE ENDURING AMERICAN DILEMMA; 7: AMERICAN INDIANS: THE CONTINUING PLIGHT OF THE FIRST OF THIS LAND; 8: LATINO AMERICANS: INTO THE MAINSTREAM OR ON THE MARGINS?; 9: ASIAN AMERICANS: THE MYTH OF THE MODEL MINORITY; 10: MULTICULTURAL PROSPECTS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE; REFERENCES; SUBJECT INDEX; AUTHOR INDEX

I found this book to be refreshing in its candor, brilliant in its creativity, and exciting in its ability to provide fresh insights into what appear to be timeless questions for Americans. I like the authors' approach, which blends history, structure, and theory. I would characterize it as scholarly, challenging, critical, and highly readable.

• PART I: THINKING ABOUT RACE AND ETHNICITY; 1: ETHNIC AND RACIAL DIMENSIONS; 2: TOWARD A CONCEPTUAL MAP OF ETHNIC RELATIONS; PART II: SOCIOLOGY MEETS HISTORY; 3: CONSTRUCTING WASP HEGEMONY AND THE RACIAL "OTHER" FROM COLONIAL AMERICA TO THE CIVIL WAR; 4: RECONFIGURING THE RACIAL DIVIDE: IMMIGRATION AND WHITE SUPREMACY, 1865-1950; PART III: YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND TOMORROW: FROM 1950 TO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY; 5: EUROPEAN AMERICANS: THE TWILIGHT OF ETHNICITY?; 6: AFRICAN AMERICANS: THE ENDURING AMERICAN DILEMMA; 7: AMERICAN INDIANS: THE CONTINUING PLIGHT OF THE FIRST OF THIS LAND; 8: LATINO AMERICANS: INTO THE MAINSTREAM OR ON THE MARGINS?; 9: ASIAN AMERICANS: THE MYTH OF THE MODEL MINORITY; 10: MULTICULTURAL PROSPECTS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE; REFERENCES; SUBJECT INDEX; AUTHOR INDEX