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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 | |