"This book has evolved from a public lecture series sponsored by the University of California Extension Division in the summer of 1968."

The California mission / W. W. Borah -- The California Indian and Anglo-American culture / S. F. Cook -- Continuties and discontinuities in Spanish-speaking California / M. Rischin -- Strangers in the cities: the Chinese on the urban frontier / S. M. Lyman -- Japanese-Americans: some costs of group achievement / J. Modell -- White racism and Black response in California / V. Jenkins -- Conflict in the fields: Mexican workers in California agri-business / C. Wollenberg -- Afro-Americans and Mexican-Americans: the politics of coalition / M. M. Dymally -- A Chicano response / S. S. Ortega -- Notes and sources (p. 185-215).