Contents -- Part I. Introduction -- 1 Putting "Race" in Its Place -- Part II. The Social Construction of Racial and Ethnic Difference -- 2 Dictatorship, Democracy, and Difference: The Historical Construction of Racial Identity -- 3 Who Are the "Good Guys"? The Social Construction of the Vietnamese "Other" -- 4 The Rising Significance of Status in U.S. Race Relations -- 5 African American Entrepreneurship and Racial Discrimination: A Southern Metropolitan Case -- Part III. Race, Segregation, and the State -- 6 Black Ghettoization and Social Mobility -- 7 Historical Footprints: The Legacy of the School Desegregation Pioneers -- 8 Retreat from Equal Opportunity? The Case of Affirmative Action -- 9 Demobilization in the New Black Political Regime: Ideological Capitulation and Radical Failure in the Postsegregation Era -- Part IV. Globalization and the New Boundaries of Race and Ethnicity -- 10 The Real "New World Order": The Globalization of Racial and Ethnic Relations in the Late Twentieth Century -- 11 The Effects of Transnational Culture, Economy, and Migration on Mixtec Identity in Oaxacalifornia -- 12 Models of Immigrant Integration in France and the United States: Signs of Convergence? -- Part V. Race, Ethnicity, and Community Power -- 13 When the Melting Pot Boils Over: The Irish, Jews, Blacks, and Koreans of New York -- 14 Beyond "Politics by Other Means"? Empowerment Strategies for Los Angeles' Asian Pacific Community -- 15 Political Capital and the Social Reproduction of Inequality in a Mexican Origin Community in Arizona -- 16 The Continuing Legacy of Discrimination in Southern Communities -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.