Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF TABLES -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1 The Dynamics of Issue Evolution -- 2 The Politics of Race: From Roosevelt to Reagan -- 3 The Politics and Policy of Race in Congress -- 4 Political Activism and the Party System -- 5 The Ideological and Partisan Transformation of Racial Issues -- 6 Modeling Change in Mass Identification -- 7 On the Structure and Sequence of Issue Evolution -- 8 Racial Issue Evolution: Strategy, Chance, and Opportunity -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX