| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-5页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第5-7页 |
| Introduction | 第7-9页 |
| Chapter 1 The Development of Black America | 第9-15页 |
| ·Slavery | 第9-11页 |
| ·The Jim Crow Segregation | 第11-12页 |
| ·The Civil Rights Movement | 第12-15页 |
| Chapter 2 Assimilation of African Americans | 第15-21页 |
| ·Definition of Assimilation | 第15-16页 |
| ·Cultural Assimilation | 第16-17页 |
| ·Structural Assimilation | 第17-21页 |
| ·Primary Structural Assimilation | 第17-18页 |
| ·Secondary Structural Assimilation | 第18-21页 |
| Chapter 3 Achievements of African Americans in Their Assimilation into the Mainstream Society | 第21-30页 |
| ·The Economic Status of African Americans | 第21-24页 |
| ·Earnings of Employed Workers | 第21-22页 |
| ·Occupational Mobility | 第22-23页 |
| ·Educational Attainment | 第23-24页 |
| ·The Political Power of African Americans | 第24-26页 |
| ·Positive Changes in the Attitudes of Whites Towards Blacks | 第26-27页 |
| ·Case Study: Barack Obama Elected as the First African American President | 第27-30页 |
| Chapter 4 Challenges of African Americans in Their Assimilation into the Mainstream Society | 第30-41页 |
| ·Discrepancy Between African Americans and Whites | 第30-33页 |
| ·Gap Between African Americans and Whites in Economic Status | 第30-32页 |
| ·Gap Between African Americans and Whites in Political Power | 第32-33页 |
| ·More Subtle and Indirect Form of Discrimination | 第33-37页 |
| ·Indirect Discrimination | 第33-36页 |
| ·The More Subtle Racist Ideology | 第36-37页 |
| ·Imbalanced Development within the Black Community | 第37-38页 |
| ·Case Study: Barack Obama with “Black Skin but a White Heart” | 第38-39页 |
| ·Case Study: Harvard Professor Gates Arrested at Cambridge Home | 第39-41页 |
| Conclusion | 第41-43页 |
| Appendix I | 第43-44页 |
| Appendix II | 第44-45页 |
| Bibliography | 第45-47页 |
| 外交学院硕士研究生学位论文答辩委员会组成人员名单 | 第47页 |
