Contents:
  • The changing structure of minority group political opportunities: looking ahead to the twenty-first century / Richard A. Keiser
  • Electoral arrangements and minority political incorporation / Richard L. Engstrom
  • Life after districts / Amy Bridges and Katherine Underwood
  • The dynamo of urban growth: immigration, naturalization, and the restructuring of urban politics / Louis DeSipio
  • Can cities be elastic and democratic, too? / Arnold Fleischmann
  • Taken in or just taken? Political incorporation of African Americans in cities / Rufus P. Browning, Dale Rogers Marshall, and David Tabb
  • Analyzing urban regime change: black power, white backlash, and shades of gray / Richard A. Keiser
  • Context, identity, and incorporation: are Latinos in the Midwest different? / Thomas Longoria, Jr.
  • Asian Pacific Americans and the pan-ethic question / James S. Lai
  • Gay and lesbian incorporation into four urban regimes in upstate New York / Donald B. Rosenthal
  • A long and uncertain path: looking ahead to the twenty-first century / Katherine Underwood.