| Foreword | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Contributors | |
| 1 | Promise and Dilemma: Incorporating Racial Diversity in Selective Higher Education | 3 |
| 2 | Promoting High Academic Achievement among Non-Asian Minorities | 47 |
| 3 | A Threat in the Air: How Stereotypes Shape Intellectual Identity and Performance | 92 |
| 4 | A Practitioner's View from Texas: Comments on the Essays by L. Scott Miller and Claude M. Steele | 129 |
| 5 | Assessment and Student Diversity: Comments on the Essays by L. Scott Miller and Claude M. Steele | 135 |
| 6 | Equity and Excellence - Strange Bedfellows? A Case Study of South African Higher Education | 145 |
| 7 | Facing the Dilemmas of Difference: Comments on the Essay by Mamphela Ramphele | 162 |
| 8 | Problematics of Affirmative Action: A View from California | 169 |
| 9 | What a University Can Learn and Teach about Conflict and Difference: Comments on the Essay by Neil J. Smelser | 193 |
| Epilogue | 199 |
| Index | 203 |
