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Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1 INTRODUCTION: HOW WAR AND THE BLACK CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT CHANGED AMERICA -- 2 "THIS IS WAR AND THIS IS A WAR MEASURE": RACIAL EQUALITY BECOMES NATIONAL SECURITY -- 3 NATIONAL SECURITY AND EQUAL RIGHTS: LIMITS AND QUALIFICATIONS -- 4 "WE WERE ADVANCING THE REALLY REVOLUTIONARY VIEW OF DISCRIMINATION": DESIGNATING OFFICIAL MINORITIES FOR AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN EMPLOYMENT -- 5 "IN VIEW OF THE EXISTENCE OF THE OTHER SIGNIFICANT MINORITIES": THE EXPANSION OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION FOR MINORITY CAPITALISTS -- 6 "RACE IS A VERY RELEVANT PERSONAL CHARACTERISTIC": AFFIRMATIVE ADMISSIONS, DIVERSITY, AND THE SUPREME COURT -- 7 "LEARN, AMIGO, LEARN!" BILINGUAL EDUCATION AND LANGUAGE RIGHTS IN THE SCHOOLS -- 8 "I AGREE WITH YOU ABOUT THE INHERENT ABSURDITY": TITLE IX AND WOMEN'S EQUALITY IN EDUCATION -- 9 WHITE MALES AND THE LIMITS OF THE MINORITY RIGHTS REVOLUTION: THE DISABLED, WHITE ETHNICS, AND GAYS -- 10 CONCLUSION: THE RARE AMERICAN EPIPHANY -- NOTES -- INDEX

Lessons from California / David FitzGerald and John D. Skrentny -- Immigration past, present, and future / Frank D. Bean, Susan K. Brown, and Stephanie A. Pullés -- Immigration policy / Allan Colbern -- Federal policies and health / Riti Shimkhada and Ninez A. Ponce -- Naturalization / Roger Waldinger -- The innovation economy / Natalie Novick and John D. Skrentny -- English language learners / Marisa Abrajano, Lisa García Bedolla, and Liesel I. Spangler -- How Californians see immigration / Zoltan Hajnal, Taeku Lee, and Kristy M. Pathakis -- Immigrant integration and the law : an afterword / Hiroshi Motomura.

Examines Republican party strategy following the 1968 presidential election; emphasis on which groups are "swing" voters and which are marginalized as "captured" voters; US. Argues that a competitive two-party system encourages either mobilization or demobilization of certain groups and either their incorporation or restriction in the democratic process.