Immigrants and Racial Equality on the American Public Policy Agenda: Interpretations and Perspectives.

This paper examines the impact of the large-scale post-1965 immigration on efforts to employ public policy to gain greater ethno-racial equality in the United States. The paper uses interpretive methods of political analysis to claim that recent immigrants have not been a major factor - though clearly they have been used rhetorically and politically - in the reversal of fortune for the "Second Reconstruction" in American politics since the late 1960s. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]