Diversity in the United States: questions and concepts. -- Assimilation and pluralism: from immigrants to white ethnics. -- Prejudice and discrimination. -- The development of dominant-minority group relations in preindustrial America: the origins of slavery. -- Industrialization and dominant-minority relations: from slavery to segregation and the coming of postindustrial society. -- African Americans: from segregation to modern institutional discrimination and modern racism. -- American Indians: from conquest to tribal survival in a postindustrial society. -- Hispanic Americans: colonization, immigration, and ethnic enclaves. -- Asian Americans: "Model minorities"? -- New Americans, assimilation, and old challenges. -- Minority groups and U.S. society: themes, patterns, and the future.

1. United States -- Ethnic relation
2. Social conflict -- United States
3. Group identity -- United States
4. Ethnicity -- United States
5. Minorities -- United States