Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction xvii
4. Acknowledgments xxiii
5. Chapter 1. Ethnicity in seventeenth-century English America, 1600–1700 1
6. Chapter 2. Ethnicity in eighteenth-century North America, 1701–1788 89
7. Chapter 3. The Limits of Equality: Racial and Ethnic Tensions in the new Republic, 1789–1836 151
8. Chapter 4. Racial and Ethnic Identity in the United States, 1837–1877 223
9. Chapter 5. Race, Nation, and Citizenship in Late Nineteenth-Century America, 1878–1900 309
10. Chapter 6. The Critical Period: Ethnic Emergence and Reaction, 1901–1929 413
11. Chapter 7. Changing Racial Meanings: Race and Ethnicity in the United States, 1930–1964 599
12. Chapter 8. Racial and Ethnic Relations in America, 1965–2000 667
13. Conclusion 949
14. Contributors 955
15. Index 959
16. Backmatter 993