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Author Biography
Table of Contents
A Different Mirror: The Making of Multicultural America | p. 3 |
Foundations | |
Before Columbus: Vinland | p. 23 |
The "Tempest" in the Wilderness: A Tale of Two Frontiers | p. 26 |
Shakespeare's Dream About America | p. 27 |
English Over Irish | p. 28 |
English Over Indian | p. 30 |
Virginia: To "Root Out" Indians as a People | p. 34 |
New England: The "Utter Extirpation" of Indians | p. 37 |
Stolen Lands: A World Turned "Upside Down" | p. 44 |
The Hidden Origins of Slavery | p. 49 |
A View from the Cabins: Black and White Together | p. 51 |
"English and Negroes in Armes": Bacon's Rebellion | p. 57 |
"White Over Black" | p. 62 |
Contradictions | |
The Rise of the Cotton Kingdom | p. 75 |
Toward "the Stony Mountains": From Removal to Reservation | p. 79 |
Andrew Jackson: "To...Tread on the Graves of Extinct Nations" | p. 79 |
The Embittered Human Heart: The Choctaws | p. 83 |
"The Trail of Tears": The Cherokees | p. 87 |
"American Progress": "Civilization" Over "Savagery" | p. 91 |
"No More Peck o' Corn": Slavery and Its Discontents | p. 98 |
"North of Slavery" | p. 99 |
Was "Sambo" Real? | p. 102 |
Frederick Douglass: Son of His Master | p. 113 |
Martin Delany: Father of Black Nationalism | p. 118 |
"Tell Linkum Dat We Wants Land" | p. 122 |
Fleeing "the Tyrant's Heel": "Exiles" from Ireland | p. 131 |
Behind the Emigration: "John Bull Must Have the Beef" | p. 132 |
An "Immortal Irish Brigade" of Workers | p. 137 |
Irish "Maids" and "Factory Girls" | p. 145 |
"Green Power": The Irish "Ethnic" Strategy | p. 151 |
"Foreigners in Their Native Land": The War Against Mexico | p. 155 |
"We Must Be Conquerors or We Are Robbers" | p. 155 |
Anglo Over Mexican | p. 164 |
Searching for Gold Mountain: Strangers from a Different Shore | p. 177 |
Pioneers from Asia | p. 178 |
Twice a Minority: Chinese Women in America | p. 191 |
A Colony of "Bachelors" | p. 195 |
A Sudden Change in Fortune: The San Francisco Earthquake | p. 200 |
"Caught in Between": Chinese Born in America | p. 203 |
Transitions | |
The End of the Frontier: The Emergence of an American Empire | p. 209 |
The "Indian Question": From Reservation to Reorganization | p. 214 |
The Massacre at Wounded Knee | p. 214 |
Where the Buffalo No Longer Roam | p. 216 |
Allotment and Assimilation | p. 220 |
The Indian "New Deal": What Kind of a "Deal" Was It? | p. 225 |
Pacific Crossings: From Japan to the Land of "Money Trees" | p. 232 |
Picture Brides in America | p. 233 |
Tears in the Canefields | p. 237 |
Transforming California: From Deserts to Farms | p. 252 |
The Nisei: Americans by Birth | p. 259 |
The Exodus from Russia: Pushed by Pogroms | p. 262 |
A Shtetl in America | p. 267 |
In the Sweatshops: An Army of Garment Workers | p. 271 |
Daughters of the Colony | p. 275 |
Up from "Greenhorns": Crossing Delancey Street | p. 280 |
El Norte: Up from Mexico | p. 292 |
Sprinkling the Fields with the Sweat of Their Brows | p. 295 |
Tortillas and Rotis: Mixed Marriages | p. 300 |
On the Other Side of the Tracks | p. 302 |
The Barrio: A Mexican-American World | p. 307 |
To "the Land of Hope": Blacks in the Urban North | p. 311 |
"The Wind Said North" | p. 312 |
The Crucible of the City | p. 318 |
Black Pride in Harlem | p. 325 |
"But a Few Pegs to Fall": The Great Depression | p. 332 |
Transformations | |
The Problem of the Color Lines | p. 339 |
World War II: American Dilemmas | p. 341 |
Japanese Americans: "A Tremendous Hole" in the Constitution | p. 342 |
African Americans: "Bomb the Color Line" | p. 350 |
Chinese Americans: To "Silence the Distorted Japanese Propaganda" | p. 359 |
Mexican Americans: Up from the Barrio | p. 361 |
Native Americans: "Why Fight the White Man's War?" | p. 367 |
Jewish Americans: A "Deafening Silence" | p. 371 |
A Holocaust Called Hiroshima | p. 380 |
Out of the War: Clamors for Change | p. 383 |
Rising Winds for Social Justice | p. 383 |
Raisins in the Sun: Dreams Deferred | p. 396 |
Asian Americans: A "Model Minority" for Blacks? | p. 402 |
Again, the "Tempest-Tost" | p. 405 |
From a "Teeming Shore": Russia, Ireland, and China | p. 406 |
Dragon's Teeth of Fire: Vietnam | p. 411 |
Wars of Terror: Afghanistan | p. 418 |
Beckoned North: Mexico | p. 426 |
"We Will All Be Minorities" | p. 434 |
Author's Note: Epistemology and Epiphany | p. 441 |
Notes | p. 447 |
Index | p. 519 |
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