Chapter 1 Defining Race and Ethnicity: Foundations for Understanding Identity, Power, and Society

Chapter 2 Theoretical Perspectives on Race: Assimilation, Pluralism, and Critical Approaches

Chapter 3 Sovereignty, Survival, and Renewal: The Indigenous History of North America from Precontact to the Present

Chapter 4 Black Communities and the Racial State Across the Diaspora: Slavery, Blackness, and Social Change

Chapter 5 European Migration, Whiteness, and the Making of the American Racial State

Chapter 6 Asian American Migration: Diversity, Exclusion, and Resistance

Chapter 7 Latinx Community: Borders, Brownness, and the Racial State

Chapter 8 Racializing Religion: Middle Eastern and Muslim Communities

Chapter 9 Intersections of Identity: Multiracial, Colorism, and Emerging Identities

Chapter 10 Lessons from the Past, Pathways to the Future