Peshkin's book, Color of Strangers, Color of Friends, mainly concentrates on the play of racial and ethnic relations among members of a small city in the West. Whereas, Steinberg's book, The Ethnic Myth, is a structural view on the issue of racism and ethnicity. They both, however, tackle the problem of assimilation which exists in ethnic and racial mingling. Here, is where a point of comparison may be drawn between the two works.