Introduction / Glenn C. Loury, Tariq Modood and Steven M. Teles
Pt. I. Historical overviews
1. Ruling an empire, governing a multinational state : the impact of Britain's historical legacy on the ethno-racial regime / Mary J. Hickman
2. American diversity and the 2000 census / Nathan Glazer
3. Four modes of ethno-somatic stratification : the experience of blacks in Europe and the Americas / Orlando Patterson
Pt. II. Informal social networks
4. Ethnicity as social capital : community-based institutions and embedded networks of social relations / Min Zhou
5. Intergenerational mobility and racial inequality in education and earnings / Linda Datcher Loury
6. Social integration and social mobility : spatial segregation and intermarriage of the Caribbean population in Britain / Ceri Peach
7. Ghettos and the transmission of ethnic capital / David M. Cutler, Edward L. Glaeser and Jacob L. Vigdor
8. Family formulation in multicultural Britain : diversity and change / Richard Berthoud
Pt. III. Formal structures
9. Educational progress for African-Americans and Latinos in the United States from the 1950s to the 1990s : the interaction of ancestry and class / Michael Hout
10. educational attainments of ethnic minorities in Britain / Tariq Modood
11. Why America's black-white school achievement gap persists / Ronald F. Ferguson
12. Networks and niches : the continuing significance of ethnic connections / Roger Waldinger
13. Nonwhite origins, Anglo destinations : immigrants in the USA and Britain / Suzanne Model
14. Social mobility of ethnic minorities / Anthony Heath and Dorren McMahon
15. Ethnic minorities, employment, self-employment, and social mobility in postwar Britain / Vaughan Robinson and Rina Valeny
Pt. IV. Political institutions and processes
16. Ethnicity and political mobilization in Britain / Tariq Modood
17. Political institutions and minority mobility in the USA / Peter Skerry
18. Race, state, and policy : the development of employment discrimination policy in the USA and Britain / Robert Lieberman
19. Regime effects : ethnicity, social mobility, and public policy in the USA and Britain / Steven M. Teles, Robert Mickey and Fawzia S. Ahmed
Pt. V. Normative analysis
20. Race, inequality and justice in the USA : some social-philosophic reflections / Glenn C. Loury
21. Achieving racial equality / Bhikhu Parekh.