Race and Ethnicity in America : A Concise History.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (294 pages)
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Ethnicity in Seventeenth-Century English America, 1600-1700 -- 2. Ethnicity in Eighteenth-Century North America, 1701-1788 -- 3. The Limits of Equality: Racial and Ethnic Tensions in the New Republic, 1789-1836 -- 4. Racial and Ethnic Identity in the United States, 1837-1877 -- 5. Race, Nation, and Citizenship in Late Nineteenth-Century America, 1878-1900 -- 6. The Critical Period: Ethnic Emergence and Reaction, 1901-1929 -- 7. Changing Racial Meanings: Race and Ethnicity in the United States, 1930-1964 -- 8. Racial and Ethnic Relations in America, 1965-2000 -- Conclusion -- Contributors -- Index.
Featuring essays by leading historians, this brief history is a timely introduction to the interrelated themes of race, ethnicity, and immigration in American history. The book is comprehensive both chronologically -- spanning from 1600 to 2000 and covering everything from the Trail of Tears to the Black Power movement -- and in terms of ethnic groups addressed: it examines not only the history of black-white relations in America, but also the experiences of Irish Catholics, Native Americans, Latinos, Jews, and many others.
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Ethnicity -- United States -- History. Minorities -- United States -- History. Immigrants -- United States -- History. United States -- Race relations. United States -- Ethnic relations. United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History.