Natives and Strangers: A History of Ethnic Americans [6 ed.] 9780199303410

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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

Natives and Strangers: A History of Ethnic Americans [6 ed.]
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