Author's Note | p. v |
A Different Mirror | p. 1 |
Boundlessness | |
Before Columbus: Vinland | p. 21 |
The "Tempest" in the Wilderness: The Racialization of Savagery | p. 24 |
Shakespeare's Dream about America | p. 25 |
A World Turned Upside Down | p. 44 |
The "Giddy Multitude": The Hidden Origins of Slavery | p. 51 |
A View from the Cabins: White and Black Laborers in Early Virginia | p. 52 |
"English and Negroes in Armes" | p. 61 |
The Wolf by the Ears | p. 68 |
Borders | |
Prospero Unbound: The Market Revolution | p. 79 |
Toward the Stony Mountains: From Removal to Reservation | p. 84 |
Andrew Jackson: Symbol for an Age | p. 84 |
The Land-Allotment Strategy: The Choctaw Experience | p. 88 |
The Treaty Strategy: The Cherokees' Trail of Tears | p. 93 |
Where the Buffalo No Longer Roam | p. 98 |
No More Peck o' Corn: Slavery and Its Discontents | p. 106 |
Racial Borders in the Free States | p. 107 |
Was Sambo Real? | p. 110 |
Slave Son, White Father | p. 122 |
Black Nationalism: Nostalgia in the Niger | p. 126 |
"Tell Linkum Dat We Wants Land" | p. 131 |
Emigrants from Erin: Ethnicity and Class within White America | p. 139 |
The Irish Exodus | p. 139 |
An "Immortal Irish Brigade" of Workers | p. 146 |
The Irish Maid in America | p. 154 |
The Irish "Ethnic" Strategy | p. 160 |
Foreigners in Their Native Land: Manifest Destiny in the Southwest | p. 166 |
"In the Hands of an Enterprising People" | p. 166 |
"Occupied" Mexico | p. 177 |
The Making of a Mexican Proletariat | p. 184 |
Searching for Gold Mountain: Strangers from a Pacific Shore | p. 191 |
Pioneers from Asia | p. 192 |
Chinese Calibans: The Borders of Exclusion | p. 204 |
Twice a Minority: Chinese Women in America | p. 209 |
A Colony of "Bachelors" | p. 215 |
Distances | |
The End of the Frontier | p. 225 |
The "Indian Question": From Reservation to Reorganization | p. 228 |
Wounded Knee: The Significance of the Frontier in Indian History | p. 228 |
The Father of the Reservation System | p. 231 |
Allotment and Assimilation | p. 234 |
The Indian New Deal: The Remaking of Native America | p. 238 |
Pacific Crossings: Seeking the Land of Money Trees | p. 246 |
Picture Brides in America | p. 247 |
Tears in the Canefields | p. 251 |
Transforming the Land: From Deserts to Farms | p. 266 |
Between "Two Endless Days": The Continuous Journey to the Promised Land | p. 277 |
Exodus from the Pale | p. 277 |
A Shtetl in America | p. 283 |
In the Sweatshops: An Army of Garment Workers | p. 288 |
Daughters of the Colony | p. 293 |
Up from Greenhorns: Crossing Delancey Street | p. 298 |
El Norte: The Borderland of Chicano America | p. 311 |
The Crossing | p. 312 |
A Reserve Army of Chicano Labor | p. 317 |
The Internal Borders of Exclusion | p. 326 |
The Barrio: Community in the Colony | p. 334 |
To the Promised Land: Blacks in the Urban North | p. 340 |
The Black Exodus | p. 341 |
The Urban Crucible | p. 347 |
Yearning for Blackness in Urban America | p. 355 |
"But a Few Pegs to Fall": The Great Depression | p. 366 |
Crossings | |
The Ashes at Dachau | p. 373 |
Through a Glass Darkly: Toward the Twenty-first Century | p. 378 |
A War for Democracy: Fighting as One People | p. 378 |
America's Dilemma | p. 399 |
A Note of Appreciation | p. 429 |
Notes | p. 430 |
Index | p. 495 |
About the Author | p. 508 |
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