Can We All Get Along?: Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics Book

	List of Illustrations and Maps
	List of Acronyms
	Preface
1	America's Dilemmas	1
	Terms Used in This Book	5
	Race and Ethnicity	7
	American Government Foundation and Racial Minorities	9
	The Constitution and Black and Indian Citizenship	11
	Citizenship and Later Minorities: Latinos and Asians	15
	The Constitution and Black and Indian Suffrage	19
	Structure of This Book	23
2	Resources and Status of America's Racial Minorities	25
	Population Size, Socioeconomic Status, and Concentration	27
	Participation in a Civil Rights Movement	42
	Voting Rights Law	51
3	America's Racial Minorities in the Contemporary Political System: Actors	57
	Group Identity and Perceptions of Discrimination	62
	Political Ideology	65
	Partisan Identification	70
	Voting Behavior	79
	The 1996 Elections	86
	The 1998 Congressional Elections	90
	The 2000 Elections	95
	Interest Group Activities	99
4	America's Racial Minorities and the Policymaking Process	105
	Agenda Setting	108
	Minority Representation	109
	Federalism	129
	State Elective Office	130
	Equal Educational Opportunity	133
	Affirmative Action in Employment	147
5	Coalition or Competition? Patterns of Interminority Group Relations	153
	Interminority Group Relations	155
	Coalition or Competition Politics?	156
	Los Angeles	160
6	Will We "All Get Along"?	177
	The Dilemmas Revisited	179
	Targeting Racial and Ethnic Minorities	183
	Looking to the Future	185
	Discussion Questions	189
	Glossary	193
	Timelines	201
	Notes	233
	References	235
	Index	247