Chapter Outline

I. Patterns of Recent Immigration

1. The changing profile in the country of origin among immigrants
2. The changing profile of ethnicity in America
3. Changes in immigration laws and the ethnic profile of America
4. Where new immigrants tend to settle
5. Characteristics of the new immigrants

II. The Immigration Dilemma

1. Threats to the Anglo-Saxon core
2. Threats to those ethnics not yet fully integrated into the core
3. Changing immigration and threats as the fuel of discrimination

III. Scenarios of the Future

1. The Hispanic American population
2. The Asian American population
3. The African American population

IV. Can America Become a Multicultural Society?

V. Points of Debate