Introduction / Avery F. Gordon and Christopher Newfield
From farce to tragedy : reflections on the reification of race at century's end / Jon Cruz
Gender, class, and multiculturalism : rethinking "race" politics / Angela Y. Davis
Academic apartheid : American Indian studies and "multiculturalism" / M. Annette Jaimes Guerrero
Like being mugged by a metaphor : multiculturalism and state narratives / Wahneema Lubiano
Multiculturalism's unfinished business / Christopher Newfield and Avery F. Gordon
Manichaeism and multiculturalism / Cedric J. Robinson
Conjugating subjects in the age of multiculturalism / Norma Alarcón
Injury, identity, politics / Wendy Brown
Multiculturalism as political strategy / Cynthia Hamilton
Racialization in the post-civil rights era / Michael Omi
Screening resistance / Lourdes Portillo and Rosa Linda Fregoso
Language and other lethal weapons : cultural politics and the rites of children as translators of culture / Antonia I. Castañeda
The Spanish Colón-ialista narrative : their prospectus for Us in 1992 / Angie Chabram-Dernersesian
Multiculturalism and racial stratification / Neil Gotanda
The erotic zone : sexual transgression on the U.S.-Mexican border / Ramón Gutiérrez
Site-seeing through Asian America : on the making of fortune cookies / Renee Tajima
Multiculturalism and flexibility : some new directions in global capitalism / Richard P. Appelbaum
The class question in global capitalism : the case of the Los Angeles garment industry / Edna Bonacich
Travelogue : the garment industry in Los Angeles and East Asia / Richard P. Appelbaum and Gregg Scott
Unified capital and the subject of value / Paul Smith
Living on the edge : everyday lives of poor Chicano/Mexicano families / Patricia Zavella
Machine talk / Steve Fagin
"It's all wrong, but it's all right" : creative misunderstandings in intercultural communication / George Lipsitz
Imagining Los Angeles in the production of multiculturalism / Lisa Lowe
A style nobody can deal with : politics, style, and the postindustrial city in hip hop / Tricia Rose
Annotated bibliography / Darryl B. Dickson-Carr.