The Ethnic Dimension in American History, 4th Edition

Introduction 1

Part I Worlds Collide: Indian People, Africans, and Europeans in Colonial America 7

1 The First Americans 17

2 The European Migrations 29

3 Ethnicity and Manifest Destiny 58

4 African Americans in the Early Years 92

Conclusion: Ethnic America in 1890 113

Part II Ethnic America in Transition, 1890–1945 121

5 The Age of the New Immigrants 128

6 American Jews 151

7 Asian America, 1882–1945 165

8 The Nativist Reaction 179

9 Native Americans: The Assault on Tribalism 191

10 Jim Crow and Ghettos: African Americans 205

11 Mexican Americans 218

Conclusion: Ethnic America in 1945 230

Part III Change and Continuity in Ethnic America, 1945 to the Present 241

12 The African Americans 246

13 The Latino Mosaic 263

14 Asian Americans in the Modern World 282

15 The Newest Arrivals 298

16 Native Americans in the Modern World 314

17 White Ethnics in Modern America 329

Conclusion: Ethnic America in 2010 345

Selected Readings 357

Index 364