| 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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