The Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America / / ed. by Ronald Bayor.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• HerausgeberIn: Bayor, Ronald,
• MitwirkendeR: Berkin, Carol,; Casey, Marion R.,; Guglielmo, Thomas A.,; Heinze, Andrew R.,; Hodges, Graham Russell,; Lewis, Earl,; Meagher, Timothy J.,; Miller Topp, Michael,; Ngai, Mae M.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1104 p.)

All historians would agree that America is a nation of nations. But what does that mean in terms of the issues that have moved and shaped us as a people? Contemporary concerns such as bilingualism, incorporation/assimilation, dual identity, ethnic politics, "as and affirmative action, residenti...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. Ethnicity in seventeenth-century English America, 1600-1700
• Chapter 2. Ethnicity in eighteenth-century North America, 1701-1788
• Chapter 3. The Limits of Equality: Racial and Ethnic Tensions in the new Republic, 1789-1836
• Chapter 4. Racial and Ethnic Identity in the United States, 1837-1877
• Chapter 5. Race, Nation, and Citizenship in Late Nineteenth-Century America, 1878-1900
• Chapter 6. The Critical Period: Ethnic Emergence and Reaction, 1901-1929
• Chapter 7. Changing Racial Meanings: Race and Ethnicity in the United States, 1930-1964
• Chapter 8. Racial and Ethnic Relations in America, 1965-2000
• Conclusion
• Contributors
• Index
• Backmatter