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. The exodus from Russia : pushed by pogroms - A Shtetl in America - In the sweatshops: an army of garment workers - Daughters of the Colony - Up from "Greenhorns": crossing Delancey Street - 12. Pacific crossings : from Japan to the land of "money trees" - Picture brides in America - Tears in the canefields - Transforming California: from deserts to farms - The Nisei: Americans by birth - 11. 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. 3: Transitions - The end of the frontier: the emergence of an American empire - 9. Searching for Gold Mountain : strangers from a different shore - Pioneers from Asia - Twice a minority: Chinese women in America - A colony of "bachelors" - A sudden change in fortune: the San Francisco earthquake - "Caught in between": Chinese born in America. "Foreigners in their native land" : the war against Mexico - "We must be conquerors or we are robbers" - Anglo over Mexican - 8. 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. "No more peck o' corn" : slavery and its discontents - "North of slavery" - Was "Sambo" real? - Frederick Douglass: son of his master - Martin Delany: father of Black nationalism - "Tell Linkum dat we wants land" - 6.
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.
Towards "the stony mountains" : from removal to reservation - Andrew Jackson: "To. 2: Contradictions - The rise of the Cotton Kingdom - 4.
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