Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Color-Line to Borderlands -- I. Ethnic Studies as a Matrix:Moving from Color-Line to Borderlands -- Multiculturalism: Battleground or Meeting Ground? -- Ethnic Studies as a Matrix for the Humanities, the Social Sciences, and the Common Good -- The Problematics of Ethnic Studies -- The Influence of African American History on U.S. History Survey Textbooks since the 1970s -- II. Institutional Structure and Knowledge Production -- Ethnic Studies in U.S. Higher Education: The State of the Discipline -- From Ideology to Institution: The Evolution of Africana Studies -- The Dialectics of Ethnicity in America: A View from American Indian Studies -- Whither the Asian American Subject? -- Thirty Years of Chicano and Chicana Studies -- III. Changing and Emerging Paradigms -- Asian American Studies and Asian Studies: Boundaries and Borderlands of Ethnic Studies and Area Studies -- Reimagining Borders: A Hemispheric Approach to Latin American and U.S. Latino and Latina Studies -- Bridges to the Twenty-First Century: Making Cultural Studies-and Making It Work -- Heavy Traffic at the Intersections: Ethnic, American, Women's, Queer, and Cultural Studies -- Contributors -- Index.