| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
ix, 508 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 430-493) and index. |
| Contents |
Different mirror -- "Tempest" in the wilderness: the racialization of savagery -- "Giddy multitude": the hidden origins of slavery -- Toward the stony mountains: from removal to reservation -- No more peck o' corn: slavery and its discontents -- Emigrants from Erin: ethnicity and class within white America -- Foreigners in their native land: manifest destiny in the southwest -- Searching for gold mountain: strangers from a Pacific shore -- "Indian question": from reservation to reorganization -- Pacific crossings: seeking the land of money trees -- Between "two endless days": the continuous journey to the promised land -- El Norte: the borderland of Chicano America -- To the promised land: blacks in the urban north -- Through a glass darkly: toward the twenty-first century. |
| Subject |
Minorities -- United States -- History.
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United States -- Race relations.
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United States -- Ethnic relations.
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| ISBN |
0316831123: $27.95 FPT ($34.95 Can.) |
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9780316831123 |
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