An Introduction to the study of minority groups in the United States: Diversity in the United States: questions and concepts -- Assimilation and pluralism -- Understanding the past: Minority groups in preindustrial America: African Americans, native Americans, and Mexican Americans -- Minority relations in industrializing America -- Understanding prejudice and discriminationn: Prejudice -- Prejudice in the 1990s: reduction and change -- Understanding the present: Dominant-minority relations in the contemporary United States: concepts and Themes -- African Americans: from segregation to modern institutional discrimination and racism -- Native Americans: from conquest to tribal survival in industrial society -- Hispanic Americans: colonization, immigration, and ethnic enclaves -- Asian American: modes of incorporation -- European immigrants: assimilation and the persistence of ethnicity -- Minority groups and U.S. society: themes, patternss, and the future

1. Minorities -- United States
2. Racism -- united States
3. Ethnicity -- United States
4. United States -- Race relations
5. United States -- Ethnic relations