The book sets out to learn some constructive lessons from the racial and ethnic strife of the 1960s and 1970s. The book does provide some new conceptualizations, and it does extend its scope to include Afro -Americans, Native Americans, Chinese, Japanese, and Puerto Ricans in the United States. It briefly compares their experiences to those of racial and ethnic groups in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and a number of Latin American countries. The goal is to develop a general model for the comparative analysis of race and ethnic relations in societies that were products of or influenced by the five centuries of white European expansion (p.xvi). To that end, the book is reasonably successful.
--Marcus D. Pohlmann, Political Science Quarterly, Volume 105, Issue 1, Spring 1990,