pt. 1. The predicament. The rough road to racial uplift / Christopher H. Foreman Jr. ; The two nations of Black America / Henry Louis Gates Jr. ; The legacy of slavery / Glenn C. Loury
pt. 2. Affirmative action. Black progress / Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom ; Affirmative action / Orlando Patterson
pt. 3. Education. The Black-white test score gap / Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips ; Race, education, and equal opportunity / Linda Darling-Hammond ; Vouchers and central city schools / Paul E. Peterson and Jay P. Greene
pt. 4. Community. Impediments to integration / Nathan Glazer ; Black churches and the inner-city poor / John J. DiIulio, Jr.
pt. 5. Politics. American racial and ethnic politics in the twenty-first century / Jennifer L. Hochschild ; The unsteady march toward racial equality / Philip A. Klinkner and Rogers M. Smith ; The moral basis of a color-blind politics / Paul M. Sniderman and Edward G. Carmines.
