ix, 508 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Contents
Different mirror -- "Tempest" in the wilderness: the racialization of savagery -- "Giddy multitude": the hidden origins of slavery -- Toward the stony mountains: from removal to reservation -- No more peck o' corn: slavery and its discontents -- Emigrants from Erin: ethnicity and class within white America -- Foreigners in their native land: manifest destiny in the southwest -- Searching for gold mountain: strangers from a Pacific shore -- "Indian question": from reservation to reorganization -- Pacific crossings: seeking the land of money trees -- Between "two endless days": the continuous journey to the promised land -- El Norte: the borderland of Chicano America -- To the promised land: blacks in the urban north -- Through a glass darkly: toward the twenty-first century
Summary
A presentation of American history from a multi-cultural perspective, focusing on a broader and comparative approach to enhance the possibility of understanding and appreciating America's racial and cultural diversity
Analysis
Minorities History United States
United States Ethnic relations
United States Race relations
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 430-493) and index
