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Series Foreword | |
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Preface and Acknowledgments | |
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Chronology of Events | |
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Introduction | |
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Constituting the Republic: Who Counted as What? | |
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"There is room for everybody in America," 1785 | |
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"Deep rooted prejudices," 1788 | |
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"To eradicate that train of absurd and false ideas and opinions," 1791 | |
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"The utmost good faith shall always be observed towards the Indians," 1787 | |
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"As if our want of strength had destroyed our rights," 1790 | |
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A Trail of Tears: Indian Removal from East to West | |
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"By persuasion and force they have been made to retire," 1829 | |
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"Arguments in favor of the bill," 1830 | |
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"We are not willing to remove," 1830 | |
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"A great many talks from our great father," 1830 | |
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"That the Choctaw may live under their own laws in peace," 1830 | |
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Nat's Rebellion: Slaves and America's Future | |
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"Rather be killed than to be a slave," 1829 | |
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"That insurrection reads some salutary lessons," 1831 | |
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"The calamity will fall upon the whites," 1831 | |
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"Woe to this guilty land," 1831 | |
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"Warn the southern people of their danger," 1831 | |
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"About this time I had a vision," 1831 | |
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War with Mexico: Race, Borders, and Manifest Destiny | |
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"Unfit to be free, and incapable of self government," 1836 | |
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"We are the nation of progress," 1839 | |
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"The peaceful triumphs of the industry of our emigrants," 1845 | |
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"One of the principal causes of our disgraces," 1846 | |
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"A doubtful state of quietness," 1847 | |
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"A triumph of Christianity?" 1848 | |
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"Hunted themselves like wild beasts," 1852 | |
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Civil War: Slavery and Emancipation in Black and White | |
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"The withering influence of a nation's scorn and contempt," 1860 | |
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"The colored man will fight," 1861 | |
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"You and we are different races," 1862 | |
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"There is no country like our own," 1862 | |
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"All persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free," 1863 | |
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"This proclamation changed everything," 1863 | |
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"An uneffaceable disgrace to the American people," 1863 | |
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"A question reserved ... for their own people," 1865 | |
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After Slavery? Reconstruction and Segregation | |
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"Full equal benefit of all laws," 1866 | |
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"We have been promised our rights but have not yet received them," 1869 | |
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"It is essential to just government we recognize the equality of all men before the law," 1875 | |
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"Running the slavery argument into the ground," 1883 | |
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"To secure and protect rights belonging to them as freemen and citizens; nothing more," 1883 | |
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"Where rests the responsibility for the lynch law," 1892 | |
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"We cannot say ... separation of the two races ... is unreasonable," 1896 | |
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Geronimo! Ending the Indian Wars | |
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"The most humane course," 1862 | |
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"The Long Walk," 1863-1864 | |
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No more treaties, 1871 | |
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"Never been very desirable neighbors," 1886 | |
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"Treat the nation's wards honestly," 1886 | |
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"Invigorated old heathen ideas," 1890 | |
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"The alarming state of things," 1890 | |
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Yellow Peril: Anti-Asian Animus from Exclusion to Internment | |
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"The Chinese Police Tax," 1862 | |
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"Excluded by the term 'white person,'" 1878 | |
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"No Chinese shall be employed," 1879 | |
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"The Chinese cannot assimilate with our people," 1884 | |
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"The ugly abyss of racism," 1944 | |
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"A grave injustice was done," 1988 | |
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From Nadir to New Negro: Segregation, Migration, and the New Deal | |
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"The friendship of the two races," 1895 | |
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"Why is mob murder permitted," 1909 | |
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"Heredity is the controlling factor in human development," 1915 | |
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"We return fighting," 1919 | |
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"Black people should be given a country of their own," 1923 | |
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"A new race-spirit is taking place," 1925 | |
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"To Secure These Rights": From Desegregation to Long, Hot Summers | |
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"Basic civil rights," 1948 | |
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"Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal," 1954 | |
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"The unwarranted decision of the Supreme Court," 1956 | |
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"Segregation forever," 1963 | |
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"We are confronted primarily with a moral issue," 1963 | |
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"The Negro today asks justice," 1963 | |
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Wounded Knee Again: The New Indian, Reservations, and Casinos | |
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"The status of the Indians," 1940 | |
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"No longer a pure ethnic group," 1949 | |
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"Adequate educational opportunity," 1961 | |
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"The overriding sovereignty of the United States," 1978 | |
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"Their own innate sovereignty," 1997 | |
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"Looking for a person of American Indian descent," 2001 | |
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"A person's identity as an Indian," 2002 | |
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Affirmative Action and "Reverse Discrimination" Backlash | |
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"To encourage by positive measures equal opportunity," 1961 | |
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"To Fulfill These Rights," 1965 | |
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"Freedom to marry," 1967 | |
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"Potential for contribution to educational diversity," 1978 | |
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"We are just one race here," 1995 | |
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"It is racial discrimination, plain and simple," 1995 | |
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"Equals without respect to race or gender," 1999 | |
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"Educational benefits flow from a diverse student body," 2003 | |
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Race on Trial in the 1990s | |
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"I pledge," 1995 | |
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"The ultimate test of our democracy," 1995 | |
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"The state shall not discriminate," 1996 | |
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"A long and tortured road," 1997 | |
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"Rethinking Racial Identity," 1999 | |
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"The state shall not classify," 2003 | |
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At the Border Again? New Immigrants and Old Worries | |
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"No ground for discussing the discrimination," 1951 | |
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"Community prejudices are not static," 1954 | |
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"A change is needed in our laws dealing with immigration," 1965 | |
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"Yellow Power," 1969 | |
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"Illegal aliens knowingly defy American laws," 1986 | |
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"A lack of understanding," 1992 | |
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From Teheran to Baghdad: Facing Race with Arabs and Muslims | |
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"Not ... fit to ... the right to be admitted a citizen," 1914 | |
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"The zone of danger," 1994 | |
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"A new crisis of identity," 1996 | |
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"Noxious mix of religious bigotry and anti-Muslim demagoguery," 2002 | |
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"A serious backlash," 2002 | |
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Selected Bibliography | |
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Index | |