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A Different Mirror: The Making of Multicultural America | |
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Foundations | |
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Before Columbus: Vinland | |
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The "Tempest" in the Wilderness: A Tale of Two Frontiers | |
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Shakespeare's Dream About America | |
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English Over Irish | |
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English Over Indian | |
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Virginia: To "Root Out" Indians as a People | |
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New England: The "Utter Extirpation" of Indians | |
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Stolen Lands: A World Turned "Upside Down" | |
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The Hidden Origins of Slavery | |
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A View from the Cabins: Black and White Together | |
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"English and Negroes in Armes": Bacon's Rebellion | |
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"White Over Black" | |
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Contradictions | |
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The Rise of the Cotton Kingdom | |
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Toward "the Stony Mountains": From Removal to Reservation | |
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Andrew Jackson: "To...Tread on the Graves of Extinct Nations" | |
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The Embittered Human Heart: The Choctaws | |
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"The Trail of Tears": The Cherokees | |
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"American Progress": "Civilization" Over "Savagery" | |
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"No More Peck o' Corn": Slavery and Its Discontents | |
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"North of Slavery" | |
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Was "Sambo" Real? | |
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Frederick Douglass: Son of His Master | |
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Martin Delany: Father of Black Nationalism | |
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"Tell Linkum Dat We Wants Land" | |
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Fleeing "the Tyrant's Heel": "Exiles" from Ireland | |
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Behind the Emigration: "John Bull Must Have the Beef" | |
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An "Immortal Irish Brigade" of Workers | |
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Irish "Maids" and "Factory Girls" | |
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"Green Power": The Irish "Ethnic" Strategy | |
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"Foreigners in Their Native Land": The War Against Mexico | |
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"We Must Be Conquerors or We Are Robbers" | |
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Anglo Over Mexican | |
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Searching for Gold Mountain: Strangers from a Different Shore | |
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Pioneers from Asia | |
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Twice a Minority: Chinese Women in America | |
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A Colony of "Bachelors" | |
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A Sudden Change in Fortune: The San Francisco Earthquake | |
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"Caught in Between": Chinese Born in America | |
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Transitions | |
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The End of the Frontier: The Emergence of an American Empire | |
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The "Indian Question": From Reservation to Reorganization | |
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The Massacre at Wounded Knee | |
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Where the Buffalo No Longer Roam | |
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Allotment and Assimilation | |
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The Indian "New Deal": What Kind of a "Deal" Was It? | |
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Pacific Crossings: From Japan to the Land of "Money Trees" | |
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Picture Brides in America | |
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Tears in the Canefields | |
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Transforming California: From Deserts to Farms | |
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The Nisei: Americans by Birth | |
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The Exodus from Russia: Pushed by Pogroms | |
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A Shtetl in America | |
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In the Sweatshops: An Army of Garment Workers | |
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Daughters of the Colony | |
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Up from "Greenhorns": Crossing Delancey Street | |
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El Norte: Up from Mexico | |
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Sprinkling the Fields with the Sweat of Their Brows | |
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Tortillas and Rotis: Mixed Marriages | |
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On the Other Side of the Tracks | |
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The Barrio: A Mexican-American World | |
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To "the Land of Hope": Blacks in the Urban North | |
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"The Wind Said North" | |
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The Crucible of the City | |
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Black Pride in Harlem | |
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"But a Few Pegs to Fall": The Great Depression | |
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Transformations | |
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The Problem of the Color Lines | |
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World War II: American Dilemmas | |
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Japanese Americans: "A Tremendous Hole" in the Constitution | |
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African Americans: "Bomb the Color Line" | |
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Chinese Americans: To "Silence the Distorted Japanese Propaganda" | |
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Mexican Americans: Up from the Barrio | |
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Native Americans: "Why Fight the White Man's War?" | |
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Jewish Americans: A "Deafening Silence" | |
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A Holocaust Called Hiroshima | |
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Out of the War: Clamors for Change | |
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Rising Winds for Social Justice | |
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Raisins in the Sun: Dreams Deferred | |
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Asian Americans: A "Model Minority" for Blacks? | |
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Again, the "Tempest-Tost" | |
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From a "Teeming Shore": Russia, Ireland, and China | |
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Dragon's Teeth of Fire: Vietnam | |
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Wars of Terror: Afghanistan | |
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Beckoned North: Mexico | |
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"We Will All Be Minorities" | |
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Author's Note: Epistemology and Epiphany | |
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Notes | |
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Index | |