Table of contents : Frontmatter Preface and Acknowledgments (page ii) 1. The Concept and the Data (page 1) 2. Urban Patterns and Ethnic Transformation (page 10) 3. Distributions: Whites and Blacks (page 43) 4. Distributions: American Indians and Hispanics (page 90) 5. Distributions: Asians and Pacific Islanders (page 119) 6. Narrowing the Gap? (page 167) 7. Probing the Income Gap (page 182) 8. Ethnic Niches at Work (page 201) 9. A Multiethnic Society