From the Book - 1st rev. ed.
1. A different mirror : the making of multicultural America.
2. The "tempest" in the wilderness : a tale of two frontiers
Shakespeare's dream about America
Virginia: to "root out" Indians as a people
New England: the "utter extirpation" of Indians
Stolen lands: a world turned "upside down"
3. The hidden origins of slavery
A view from the cabins: black and white together
"English and Negroes in armes": Bacon's Rebellion
The rise of the Cotton Kingdom
4. Towards "the stony mountains" : from removal to reservation
Andrew Jackson: "To ... tread on the graves of extinct nations"
The embittered human heart: The Choctaws
"The trail of tears" : The Cherokees
"American progress": "Civilization" over "savagery"
5. "No more peck o' corn" : slavery and its discontents
Frederick Douglass: son of his master
Martin Delany: father of Black nationalism
"Tell Linkum dat we wants land"
6. Fleeing "the tyrant's heel" : "exiles" from Ireland
Behind the emigration: "John Bull must have the beef"
An "immortal Irish brigade" of workers
Irish "maids" and "factor girls"
"Green Power": the Irish "ethnic" strategy
7. "Foreigners in their native land" : the war against Mexico
"We must be conquerors or we are robbers"
8. Searching for Gold Mountain : strangers from a different shore
Twice a minority: Chinese women in America
A sudden change in fortune: the San Francisco earthquake
"Caught in between": Chinese born in America.
The end of the frontier: the emergence of an American empire
9. The "Indian question" : from reservation to reorganization
The massacre at Wounded Knee
Where the buffalo no longer roam
Allotment and assimilation
The Indian "New Deal": what kind of a "deal" was it?
10. Pacific crossings : from Japan to the land of "money trees"
Picture brides in America
Transforming California: from deserts to farms
The Nisei: Americans by birth
11. The exodus from Russia : pushed by pogroms
In the sweatshops: an army of garment workers
Up from "Greenhorns": crossing Delancey Street
12. El Norte : up from Mexico
Sprinkling the fields with the sweat of their brows
Tortillas and rotis: mixed marriages
On the other side of the tracks
The Barrio: a Mexican-American world
13. To "the land of hope" : Blacks in the urban North
"But a few pegs to fall": the Great Depression.
The problem of the color lines
14. World War II : American dilemmas
Japanese Americans: "a tremendous hole" in the Constitution
African Americans: "bomb the color line"
Chinese Americans: to "silence the distorted Japanese propaganda"
Mexican Americans: up from the Barrio
Native Americans: why fight the White Man's way?
Jewish Americans: a "deafening silence"
A holocaust called Hiroshima
15. Out of the war : clamors for change
Rising winds for social justice
Raisins in the sun: dreams deferred
Asian Americans: a "model minority" for Blacks?
16. Again, the "tempest-tost"
From a "teeming shore": Russia, Ireland, and China
Dragon's teeth of fire: Vietnam
Wars of terror: Afghanistan
17. "We will all be minorities."