| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
x, 371 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-369). |
| Contents |
The "varied carols" of America: a democratic history -- The ties that bind. Roots: a multicultural memory ; "The vast, surging, hopeful army of workers" ; A nation that did "not perish from the Earth": a legacy of black men in blue ; Breaking silences: brushing against the grain -- A horror remembered: Olaudah Equiano's passage to America -- The significance of the frontier in American history: an Indian perspective. The coming of the Wasichus: Black Elk's boyhood memories ; The end of the frontier for a Winnebago -- From sunup to sundown: laboring in the cotton fields. "Don't give a nigger an inch": Frederick Douglass learns to read ; "The best mistress and master in the world": Millie Evans ; "Git this nigger to the cotton patch": Jenny Proctor's complaint ; After slavery: a personal account of the new bondage -- Fleeing English tyranny: the Irish cross the Atlantic. Finding her voice for militant labor: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn |
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Strangers from a different shore: the Chinese. "How can I call this my home?": Lee Chew ; "Like country pretty much": Kee Low ; "A chance to take care of myself": a Chinese-American daughter -- Beyond the pale: Jewish immigrants in a promised land. A sweatshop girl: Sadie Frowne ; Dear editor: letters from Jewish America--problems and advice -- Betrayed by their country: the World War II internment of Japanese Americans. A birthright denied: Monica Sone ; A birthright renounced: Joseph Kurihara -- Fighting on the "frontier" of the Pacific War: Native Americans. The Indian hero of Iwo Jima: letters from Ira Hayes -- Transplanted in Chicago: The Polish. Bilingual education in Polonia ; A stepchild of America: Thomas Napierkowski -- El Norte: up from Mexico. Searching for a door to America: Jesús Garza ; A song of El Norte: Camelia Palafox ; Twice a minority: María Jiménez joins the army |
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Beyond Ellis Island: the Italians. Growing up between two worlds: Joanna Dorio -- India in the west: new passages. Reinventing herself in America: Shanti -- Puerto Ricans: the island is in the heart. Growing up Puerto Rican in New York: Maria Diaz -- The 1992 Los Angeles riot: Korean-American dreams in flames. "Not going to let the riots beat me": Sun Soon Kim -- Blacks in the cities: no time to wait. The "disappearance" of work: hard times for Jimmy Morse ; A chance to act affirmatively: Bryan K. Fair -- Creating a community of a larger memory. |
| Subject |
Cultural pluralism -- United States -- History -- Sources.
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Minorities -- United States -- Biography.
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United States -- Ethnic relations -- Sources.
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United States -- Race relations -- Sources.
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| ISBN |
0316831697 |
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9780316831697 |
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0316311626 paperback |
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9780316311625 paperback |
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