Part I : An introduction to the study of minority gropus in the United States -- Diversity in the United States: questions and concepts -- Assimilation and pluralism: from immigrants to white ethnics -- Prejudice and discrimination -- Part II : The evolution of dominant-minority relations in the United States -- 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 -- Part III : Understanding dominant-minority relations in the United States today -- African Americans -- Native Americans -- Hispanic Americans -- Asian Americans -- New Americans, immigration, assimilation, and old challenges -- Part IV : Other groups, other patterns -- Gender -- Lesbian, gay, and bisexual Americans -- Dominant-minority relations in cross-national perspective -- Part V : Challenges for the present and the future -- Minority groups and U.S. society: themes, patterns, and the future

1. Minorities -- United States
2. Ethnicity -- United States
3. Group identity -- United States
4. Social conflict -- United States
5. United States -- Race relations
6. United States -- Ethnic relations
7. United States -- Social conditions