1 A Different Mirror: The Making of Multicultural America 3
Part 1 Foundations
Before Columbus: Vinland 23
2 The "Tempest" in the Wilderness: A Tale of Two Frontiers 26
Shakespeare's Dream About America 27
English Over Irish 28
English Over Indian 30
Virginia: To "Root Out" Indians as a People 34
New England: The "Utter Extirpation" of Indians 37
Stolen Lands: A World Turned "Upside Down" 44
3 The Hidden Origins of Slavery 49
A View from the Cabins: Black and White Together 51
"English and Negroes in Armes": Bacon's Rebellion 57
"White Over Black" 62
Part 2 Contradictions
The Rise of the Cotton Kingdom 75
4 Toward "the Stony Mountains": From Removal to Reservation 79
Andrew Jackson: "To...Tread on the Graves of Extinct Nations" 79
The Embittered Human Heart: The Choctaws 83
"The Trail of Tears": The Cherokees 87
"American Progress": "Civilization" Over "Savagery" 91
5 "No More Peck o' Corn": Slavery and Its Discontents 98
"North of Slavery" 99
Was "Sambo" Real? 102
Frederick Douglass: Son of His Master 113
Martin Delany: Father of Black Nationalism 118
"Tell Linkum Dat We Wants Land" 122
6 Fleeing "the Tyrant's Heel": "Exiles" from Ireland 131
Behind the Emigration: "John Bull Must Have the Beef" 132
An "Immortal Irish Brigade" of Workers 137
Irish "Maids" and "Factory Girls" 145
"Green Power": The Irish "Ethnic" Strategy 151
7 "Foreigners in Their Native Land": The War Against Mexico 155
"We Must Be Conquerors or We Are Robbers" 155
Anglo Over Mexican 164
8 Searching for Gold Mountain: Strangers from a Different Shore 177
Pioneersfrom Asia 178
Twice a Minority: Chinese Women in America 191
A Colony of "Bachelors" 195
A Sudden Change in Fortune: The San Francisco Earthquake 200
"Caught in Between": Chinese Born in America 203
Part 3 Transitions
The End of the Frontier: The Emergence of an American Empire 209
9 The "Indian Question": From Reservation to Reorganization 214
The Massacre at Wounded Knee 214
Where the Buffalo No Longer Roam 216
Allotment and Assimilation 220
The Indian "New Deal": What Kind of a "Deal" Was It? 225
10 Pacific Crossings: From Japan to the Land of "Money Trees" 232
Picture Brides in America 233
Tears in the Canefields 237
Transforming California: From Deserts to Farms 252
The Nisei: Americans by Birth 259
11 The Exodus from Russia: Pushed by Pogroms 262
A Shtetl in America 267
In the Sweatshops: An Army of Garment Workers 271
Daughters of the Colony 275
Up from "Greenhorns": Crossing Delancey Street 280
12 El Norte: Up from Mexico 292
Sprinkling the Fields with the Sweat of Their Brows 295
Tortillas and Rotis: Mixed Marriages 300
On the Other Side of the Tracks 302
The Barrio: A Mexican-American World 307
13 To "the Land of Hope": Blacks in the Urban North 311
"The Wind Said North" 312
The Crucible of the City 318
Black Pride in Harlem 325
"But a Few Pegs to Fall": The Great Depression 332
Part 4 Transformations
The Problem of the Color Lines 339
14 World War II: American Dilemmas 341
Japanese Americans: "A Tremendous Hole" in the Constitution 342
African Americans: "Bomb the Color Line" 350
Chinese Americans: To "Silence the Distorted Japanese Propaganda" 359
Mexican Americans: Up from the Barrio 361
Native Americans: "Why Fight the White Man's War?" 367
Jewish Americans: A "Deafening Silence" 371
A Holocaust Called Hiroshima 380
15 Out of the War: Clamors for Change 383
Rising Winds for Social Justice 383
Raisins in the Sun: Dreams Deferred 396
Asian Americans: A "Model Minority" for Blacks? 402
16 Again, the "Tempest-Tost" 405
From a "Teeming Shore": Russia, Ireland, and China 406
Dragon's Teeth of Fire: Vietnam 411
Wars of Terror: Afghanistan 418
Beckoned North: Mexico 426
17 "We Will All Be Minorities" 434
Author's Note: Epistemology and Epiphany 441
Notes 447
Index 519
LoveIsTheLaw
Posted February 8, 2013
This book should be mandatory reading for adults. I understand there is a Young People's version, which I look forward to reading with my kids. I think another reviewer missed the point when they said that this book omitted all of the good things. The point of this book is to tell the UNtold story and for people to tell it in their own words, about their own experiences. And yes, that can make some of us uncomfortable, as grim reality often does.
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Posted January 24, 2011
This is a history of violence in America. While, tragically, the conflict portrayed here is largely accurate, this book is a serious lie of omission. The author has conveniently left out any and all acts of kindness, compassion, or cooperation between races.
If your goal is to inspire, validate, or maintain racism, then this is the book for you. If your goal is to understand and heal our country, then stay away.
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Posted February 20, 2010
This books talks about and exposes all the racial history and tension in America starting from when the first settlers came to America. It talks about a lot of different racial groups that were discriminated against and their fight to achieve to true definition of the American Dream.
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Posted November 1, 2004
i am 14 years old in 8th grade and my teacher is making me read this book. i mean maybe if i were older and actually able to understang and pay attention to what was happening then i would like it. but i definatly do not recoment it for someone my age. it is really stressful.
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Posted September 12, 2004
The first chapter of the book highlights the situation on which people were in.Different cultures existed in America for different reasons;better lifes,escape from oppressions.By them going through the anthinkable,they ended up victorious.The economy of the Americans,them included,grew up.The sense of uniting as a whole nation with diffrent cultures,putting their differences aside,aking the advantage of some was to their better future.
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Posted September 9, 2004
THIS BOOK WAS GREAT AND GOT DOWN TO THE DETAILS . IT EVEN EXPLORED THE FEELINGS OF THE LITTLE PEOPLE IN THE US THROUGH THEIR POETRY.
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