| Edition |
First paperback edition. |
| Description |
ix, 508 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 430-493) and index. |
| Note |
"A Back Bay book."--P. [4] of cover. |
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"Back Bay books. |
| Contents |
A different mirror -- Boundlessness -- Before Columbus: Vinland -- The "Tempest" in the Wilderness: The racialization of savagery -- Shakespeare's dream about America -- A world turned upside down -- The "Giddy Multitude": The hidden origins of slavery -- A view from the cabins: White and black laborers in early Virginia -- "English and negroes in armes" -- The wolf by the ears -- Borders -- Prospero unbound: The market revolution -- Andrew Jackson: symbol for an age -- The land-allotment strategy: The Choctaw experience -- The teaty strategy: The Cherokees' trail of tears -- Where the buffalo no longer roam -- No more peck o' corn: slavery and its discontents -- Racial borders in the free states -- Was Sambo real? -- Slave son, white father -- Black nationalism: nostalgia in the Niger -- "Tell Linkum dat we wants land" -- Emigrants from Erin: ethnicity and class within white America -- The Irish exodus -- An "immortal Irish Brigade" of workers -- The Irish maid in America -- The Irish "ethnic" strategy -- Foreigners in their native land: manifest destiny in the Southwest -- "In the hands of an enterprising people" -- "Occupied" Mexico -- The making of a Mexican proletariat -- Searching for Gold Mountain: strangers from a Pacific Shore -- Pioneers from Asia -- Chinese Calibans: The borders of exclusion -- Twice a minority: Chinese women in America -- A colony of "Bachelors". |
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Distances -- The end of the frontier -- The "Indian Question": from reservation to reorganization -- Wounded knee: The significance of the frontier in Indian history -- The father of the reservation system -- Allotment and assimilation -- The Indian new deal: the remaking of Native America -- Pacific crossings: seeking the land of money trees -- Picture brides in America -- Tears in the Canefields -- Transforming the land: from deserts to farms -- Between "two endless days": The continuous journey to the promised land -- Exodus from the pale -- A shtetl in America -- In the sweatshops: an army of garment workers -- Daughters of the colony -- Up from Greenborns: Crossing Delancey Street -- El Norte: The borderland of Chicano America -- The crossing -- A reserve army of Chicano labor -- The internal borders of exclusion -- The Barrio: community in the colony -- To the promised land: blacks in the urban north -- The black exodus -- The urban crucible -- Yearning for blackness in urban America -- "But a few pegs to fall": The Great Depression -- Crossings -- The ashes at Dachau -- Through a glass darkly: toward the Twenty-first Century -- A war for democracy: fighting as one people -- America's dilemma. |
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Minorities -- United States -- History.
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Cultural Diversity -- history -- United States.
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Minority Groups -- history -- United States.
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Race Relations -- history -- United States.
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United States -- Race relations.
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United States -- Ethnic relations.
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| ISBN |
0316831115 |
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9780316831116 |
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