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Race Relations in America A Reference Guide with Primary Documents

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ISBN-10: 0313311153

ISBN-13: 9780313311154

Edition: 2006 (Annotated)

Authors: Thomas J. Davis

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America has struggled with racial issues since its birth centuries ago. In this pivotal study of racism in the United States, over 90 primary documents provide compelling evidence of how race has affected and shaped our country throughout the years. A narrative overview of each event, expert analysis, the text of primary sources contemporary to the time of the event, and ready reference materials will help both high school and college students to understand how race has affected the country. From the framing of the Constitution to the removal of American Indians and the Civil War, students will learn how racism is prevalent even in today's society, be it in the war on terrorism,…    
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List price: $91.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Publication date: 3/30/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.760
Language: English

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