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Part 1 Conceptual overviews, Vincent N.Parrillo: rethinking today'sminorities; the new ethnics - familiar strains in different settings. Part 2Perceptions and realities: the twilight of ethnicity among Americans ofEuropean ancestry - the case of the Italians, Richard D.Alba; Asians, Blacks,Hispanics, Amerinds - confronting vestiges of slavery, Stanford M.Lyman;Puerto Ricans - the rainbow people, Clara Rodriguez; Iranian Americans - anemerging middle class community, Maboud Ansari. Part 3 Pitfalls and promiseof government policy: American Indian development policies, C.Matthew Snippand Gene F.Summers; African Americans and social policy in the 1990s, WornieL.Reed; morality politics and US refugee policy, Peter I.Rose. Part 4 Thefuture: promoting pluralism, Joseph Giordano and Irving M.Levine.