The Bubbling Cauldron

Part 1 Introduction: putting "race" in its place, Michael Peter Smith and Joe R. Feagin. Part 2 The social construction of racial and ethnic difference: dictatorship, democracy and difference - the historical construction of racial identity, Howard Winant; who are the "good guys"? the social construction of the Vietnamese "other", Michael Peter Smith and Bernadette Tarallo; the rising significance of status in US relations, Martin Sanchez Jankowski; African American entrepreneurship and racial discrimination - a Southern Metropolitan case, Michael Hodge and Joe R. Feagin. Part 3 Race, segregation, and the state: black ghettoization and social mobility, Norman Fainstein; historical footprints - the legacy of the school desegregation pioneers, Leslie Baham Inniss; retreat from equal opportunity ? the case of affirmative action, Cedric Herring and Sharon M. Collins; demobilization in the new black political regime - ideological capitulation and radical failure in the postsegregation era, Adolph Reed Jr. Part 4 Globalization and the new boundaries of race and ethnicity: the real "new world order" - the globalization of racial and ethnic relations in the late-20th century, Nestor P. Rodriguez; the effects of transnational culture, economy and migration on Mixtec identity in Oaxacalifornia, Michael Kearney; models of immigrant integration in France and the United States - signs of convergence?, Sophie Body-Gendrot. Part 5 Race, ethnicity, and community power: when the melting pot boils over - the Irish, Jews, blacks, and Koreans of New York, Roger Waldinger; beyond politics by other means? empowerment strategies for Los Angeles' Asian Pacific community, Harold Brackman and Steven P. Eries; political capital and the social reproduction of inequality in a Mexican origin community in Arizona, Edward Murguia; the continuing legacy of discrimination in southern communities, James W. Button.