The article analyzes several books about social issues of ethnic groups in the U.S. The book analyzed in the article include: "Spanish Speaking Groups in the United States," by John Burma, "Chicanos and Native Americans: The Territorial Minorities, edited by Rodolph O. De La Garza, Z. Anthony Kruszewski and Tom´s Arciniega, "To Live on This Earth: American Indian Education, by Estelle Fuchs and Robert J. Havighurst, "Political Socialization of Chicano Children: A Comparative Study with Anglos in California Schools, by F. Chris Garcia, "Chicano Revolt in a Texas Town, by John Staples Shockley." These miscellaneous and largely descriptive studies conjure up all of the dilemmas that keep the sociological study of minorities both theoretically and politically sterile. For some social scientists there is even a question whether such study is ethical. Chicanos and American Indians have been poorly served by academic social science and these books give reason both to despair and to hope. The book by Fuchs and Havighurst is a summary and condensation of an extensive National Study of American Indian Education undertaken from 1967 to 1971.