Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Timeline -- One America in the 21st Century: Forging a New Future -- Advisory Board Members -- Transmittal Letter from Chairman Franklin -- Acknowledgments -- Executive Summary-One America in the 21st Century: Forging a New Future -- Chapter One-Searching for Common Ground -- Chapter Two-Struggling with the Legacy of Race and Color -- Chapter Three-The Changing Face of America -- Chapter Four-Bridging the Gap -- Chapter Five-Forging a New Future -- Introduction-One America in the 21st Century: Forging a New Future -- The Advisory Board and Its Mandate -- Accomplishments, Challenges, and Opportunities -- Report Overview -- Chapter One-Searching for Common Ground -- Americans Share Common Values and Aspirations -- Dialogue Is a Tool for Finding Common Ground -- Honest, Open Racial Dialogue Is Difficult -- Dialogue Helps to Dispel Stereotypes -- Sparking the Dialogue -- A Guide to Dialogue -- Leadership Counts -- The Role of Religious Leaders -- The Role of Corporate Leaders -- The Role of Young Leaders -- Supporting Community Leaders -- Promising Practices Give Us Hope -- Chapter Two-Struggling with the Legacy of Race and Color -- Understanding the Past to Move to a Stronger Future -- Our History, Ourselves: Looking at America Through the Eyes of Others -- The American Indian and Alaska Native Experience Demonstrates the Complexity of Racial Relationships -- African Americans and the Unique Legacy of Slavery -- Perpetuation of the Badge of Inferiority -- The White Immigrant Experience -- Americans Hold Conflicting Views on Race and Racial Progress -- Differing Attitudes -- Moving in the Right Direction -- Chapter Three-The Changing Face of America -- A Nation in Racial Transition -- Racial Designations Are Growing More Complex -- Searching for a New Language of Diversity.

Determining the Facts of Racial Diversity -- Improve Data Collection -- Chapter Four-Bridging the Gap -- Civil Rights Enforcement -- Recommendations -- Education and Race -- Recommendations -- Race and Poverty -- Disparities in Living Standards Continue -- Concentrated Poverty and Race -- Recommendations -- Welfare Reform and Race: An Issue in Need of Monitoring -- Race and Economic Inequality -- Employment and Labor Markets -- Recommendations -- Race and Housing Markets -- Recommendations -- Stereotypes and Race -- Recommendations -- Race, Crime, and the Administration of Justice -- Racial Profiling -- Differential Rates of Arrest, Conviction, and Sentencing -- Recommendations -- Race and Health -- Structural Inequities -- Discrimination by Providers -- Cultural Competency of Providers -- Recommendations -- Immigrants and Race -- Recommendations -- Chapter Five-Forging a New Future -- Mapping the Road to Racial Justice and Equality -- The President's Council for One America: Continuing the Work of the Advisory Board -- Developing a Public Education Campaign Using a Multimedia Approach -- A Call to Action -- Focus on Youth -- Other Critical Issues -- Civil Rights -- Media and Stereotyping -- Lack of Environmental Justice -- Education -- Conflicts Between People of Color -- International Human Rights -- Building a New Consensus -- Reaching Beyond the Choir -- Ten Things Every American Should Do to Promote Racial Reconciliation -- Endnotes -- Exhibits -- Appendix A: Executive Order 13050 and Commencement Address at the University of California-San Diego in La Jolla, California -- Appendix B: The Advisory Board to The President's Initiative on Race -- Appendix C: Advisory Board Meetings and Other Activities -- Appendix D: One America Conversations -- Appendix E: Campus Week of Dialogue -- Appendix F: Statewide Days of Dialogue.

Appendix G: One America Dialogue Guide Excerpts -- Appendix H: Promising Practices -- Notes to the Report -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Questions for Further Study.