JEWELLE TAYLOR GIBBS is the Zellerbach Family Fund Professor of Social Policy, Community Change, and Practice, Emerita, at the School of Social Work, University of California at Berkeley. She is also a licensed clinical psychologist. Gibbs is editor of Young, Black and Male in America: An Endangered Species (Auburn House, 1988), author of Race and Justice: Rodney King and O. J. Simpson in a House Divided (1996), and co-author of Children of Color: Psychological Interventions with Culturally Diverse Youth (1998).TEIAHSHA BANKHEAD is a doctoral candidate at the School of Social Welfare at the University of California at Berkeley.

• Preface The California Crucible: Melting Pot or Caldron Coming to California: Chasing the Dream Los Angeles: The Legacy of Rodney King California's Three Strikes Initiative: The Politics of Crime and Corrections Saving Our State: Demonizing the Immigrants Affirmative Action: Resisting Change, Reclaiming Privilege Bilingual Education: Language, Culture and Identity Culture Wars at Home and Abroad: National and International Trends The Politics of Identity: Conflict or Co-existence? Meeting the Millennium: Making Multiculturalism Work Index

JEWELLE TAYLOR GIBBS is the Zellerbach Family Fund Professor of Social Policy, Community Change, and Practice, Emerita, at the School of Social Work, University of California at Berkeley. She is also a licensed clinical psychologist. Gibbs is editor of Young, Black and Male in America: An Endangered Species (Auburn House, 1988), author of Race and Justice: Rodney King and O. J. Simpson in a House Divided (1996), and co-author of Children of Color: Psychological Interventions with Culturally Diverse Youth (1998).TEIAHSHA BANKHEAD is a doctoral candidate at the School of Social Welfare at the University of California at Berkeley.

• Preface The California Crucible: Melting Pot or Caldron Coming to California: Chasing the Dream Los Angeles: The Legacy of Rodney King California's Three Strikes Initiative: The Politics of Crime and Corrections Saving Our State: Demonizing the Immigrants Affirmative Action: Resisting Change, Reclaiming Privilege Bilingual Education: Language, Culture and Identity Culture Wars at Home and Abroad: National and International Trends The Politics of Identity: Conflict or Co-existence? Meeting the Millennium: Making Multiculturalism Work Index

JEWELLE TAYLOR GIBBS is the Zellerbach Family Fund Professor of Social Policy, Community Change, and Practice, Emerita, at the School of Social Work, University of California at Berkeley. She is also a licensed clinical psychologist. Gibbs is editor of Young, Black and Male in America: An Endangered Species (Auburn House, 1988), author of Race and Justice: Rodney King and O. J. Simpson in a House Divided (1996), and co-author of Children of Color: Psychological Interventions with Culturally Diverse Youth (1998).TEIAHSHA BANKHEAD is a doctoral candidate at the School of Social Welfare at the University of California at Berkeley.

• Preface The California Crucible: Melting Pot or Caldron Coming to California: Chasing the Dream Los Angeles: The Legacy of Rodney King California's Three Strikes Initiative: The Politics of Crime and Corrections Saving Our State: Demonizing the Immigrants Affirmative Action: Resisting Change, Reclaiming Privilege Bilingual Education: Language, Culture and Identity Culture Wars at Home and Abroad: National and International Trends The Politics of Identity: Conflict or Co-existence? Meeting the Millennium: Making Multiculturalism Work Index