"Who is an American?" "How does a person who is not an American become one?" Now in its sixth editi
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Table of contents :
Preface
1. Colonial Foundations (1600-1780s)
Coming of the Spanish
Coming of the English
Indians and Anglo-Americans
Attracting Settlers
Development of Slavery and Racism
European Minorities
Colonial Economic and Social Structure
Minorities and the Revolution
2. Forging a New Nation (1776-1840s)
A New Situation
Indian Relations
Southern Antislavery Falters
Free Blacks
Slavery in the Old South
New People in an Emerging Nation
Crisis over Immigration in the 1790s
National Territorial Growth
Beyond the Appalachians
Urban and Industrial Growth
Renewal of Immigration
Manifest Destiny
3. Civil War and Immigration (1840-1880s)
Settlement patterns
The Germans and the Irish
Finding Employment
Immigrant Life and Society
The Mining Frontier
The Chinese
Indians
Animosity Toward Foreigners
Anti-Catholicism
Political Nativism
The Coming of the Civil War
Blacks and the Domestic Crisis
The Mormons
Postwar Immigration
The Railroads
4. Burgeoning Industrialism and a Massive Movement of Peoples (1880s-1930s)
Industrial Expansion
Uprooted Peoples
Immigrant Settlement
The New European Immigrants
Ranching
Framers
The Japanese
The Koreans and Asian Indians
The Mexicans
The Filipinos
Black Migration North
5. The Process of Adjustment (1880s-1930s)
Wages and Working Conditions
The Tenement Districts
Voluntary Associations
Black Associations
Cultural and Recreational Activities
The Churches and Parochial Education
Public Education
Indian Experiences
The Minority Press
Maintaining Old World Ties
Politics
Social Mobility
Assimilation
6. Ethnic Tensions and Conflicts (1880s-1945)
Pseudoscientific Racism
Triumph of Jim Crowism
Treatment of Indians
Attitudes Toward Asians
Attitudes Toward Europeans
Interethnic Conflict
Religious Bigotry
World War I
Immigration Restriction
Economic Depression and Increased Tensions
"Concentration Camps U.S.A."
7. Movement, Mobility, and Cultural Adaptation (1941-2014)
The Impact of World War II
Southerners Move North
Suburbs and the Rise of the Sun Belt and the West
American Indian Migration
Renewed European Immigration
Prosperity and Mobility
Retaining Ethnic Ties
Ethnic Groups and Politics
8. The Struggle for Equality (1945-2014)
The Deprived Minorities
Toward civil Rights
The Movement for Black Power
The Post-Civil Rights Era
The Hispanics
The Asians
The Indians
The White Ethnic Groups
9. A New Global Immigration
Beyond Europe: The Global Immigrants
Mexicans
Cubans
Other Latinos
New Asian Immigrants
Middle Easterners
Other Immigrants from the Caribbean
New African Immigrants
Renewed Anxiety over Immigration
Afterword
Selected Bibliography
Index