Foreword / Bill Bradley -- Preface / Julian Bond -- Editor's Introduction / Chester Hartman -- Introduction / John A. Powell -- Pt. 1. Is Racism Permanent? -- Commentaries / Howard Winant, S. M. Miller, John C. Brittain, Leslye E. Orloff, Paul Ong, Daniel Levitas, Jose Padilla, Bernardine Dohrn and John A. Powell. Put on a Happy Face: Masking the Differences Between Blacks and Whites / Benjamin DeMott. The New International Dynamics of Race / Howard Winant -- Pt. 2. Racial/Ethnic Categories. One Drop of Blood / Lawrence Wright. The Limitations of Directive 15 / Juanita Tamayo Lott. The Error of the Third Type / Samuel L. Myers, Jr. Categories Count / Libero Della Piana. At the Races: The Multiracial Proposal / Ibrahim K. Sundiata. Accurate Racial/Ethnic Data Should Drive Category Review / Raul Yzaguirre and Sonia M. Perez. A Single Census Question to Measure Race, Spanish Origin, and Ancestry / Reynolds Farley. On the Census Race and Ethnic Categories / Nathan Glazer. Who Thought of Dropping Racial Categories, and Why? / John A. Powell -- Pt. 3. Immigration. An International Perspective on Migration / Cathi Tactaquin. Changing Relations: Newcomers and Established Residents in U.S. Communities / Robert Bach. Commentary / Cathi Tactaquin. Immigration and the Civil Rights Movement / William R. Tamayo. Job Competition Between Immigrants and African Americans / Paul Ong and Abel Valenzuela, Jr. Latino Immigrants in Los Angeles: A Portrait from the 1990 Census / David Hayes-Bautista, Werner Schink and Gregory Rodriguez. The Immigration Quiz / Applied Research Center -- Pt. 4. "The Underclass" American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass / Douglas S. Massey. Fighting the Biases Embedded in Social Concepts of the Poor / Herbert J. Gans. The Welfare Quiz / World Hunger Year. The Income and Jobs Quiz / World Hunger Year -- Pt. 5. Multiculturalism. Racism and Multicultural Democracy / Manning Marable. The Debate on Multiculturalism / John A. Powell. Social History: Our Rudder in the Midst of Storms / Henry Hampton -- Pt. 6. Affirmative Action. Affirmative Action: The Questions to Be Asked / William L. Taylor. Racism Has Its Privileges / Roger Wilkins. Scapegoating / Maxine Waters. Affirmative Action: Why Bosses Like It / The Economist. The Presumption of Stupidity: Affirmative Action, Occupational Apartheid / Brent Staples. Reaffirm the Affirmative / Max Frankel. Affirmative Action: The Army's Success / Charles Moskos. Affirmative Action, R.I.P. / Salim Muwakkil. The Affirmative Action Quiz / Fred Pincus. Reparations / John A. Powell, Sharon Parker, Theodore M. Shaw, Howard Winant, Richard America, David McReynolds, Kalonji Olusegun, Ronald Trosper and John Tateishi -- Pt. 7. Democracy/Equality. Race, Wealth and Inequality in America / Melvin L. Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro. Respect! / S. M. Miller and Karen Marie Ferroggiaro. Reuniting City and Suburb: The Key to Inner-City Progress / David Rusk. Commentaries / Margaret Weir, Eric Mann and John O. Calmore. The Economic Inequality Quiz / World Hunger Year