Introduction: The new ethnicity in historical perspective -- The ignominious origins of ethnic pluralism in America -- The ethnic crisis in American society -- The new Darwinism -- The myth of ethnic success : the Jewish Horatio Alger story -- The culture of poverty reconsidered -- Education and ethnic mobility : the myth of Jewish intellectualism and Catholic anti-intellectualism -- Why Irish became domestics and Italians and Jews did not -- The "iron law of ethnicity" revised -- The reconstruction of black servitude after the Civil War -- Racial and ethnic conflict in the twentieth century -- The "Jewish problem" in American higher education -- Dilemmas and contradictions of ethnic pluralism in America -- Epilogue: Ethnic heroes and racial villains in American social science.