Introduction | |
Interpreting History and Experience | |
Metaphorizing American Culture Anglo-Conformity: Thomas Jefferson writes George Flower, 1817 | |
Anglo-Conformity: The New York City public schools, 1906 | |
The Melting Pot: Israel Zangwill coins a phrase, 1908 | |
The Melting Pot: An eighteenth century interpretation, 1782 | |
Cultural Pluralism: Randolph Bourne''s vision of America as a confederation of distinct peoples, 1916 | |
Living with diversity: Our daily experiences, 1994 | |
Introduction: The Presence of the Past | |
Voluntary immigrants | |
The quest for a better life: a Norwegian immigrant letter of 1838 | |
Economic migrants from nineteenth century China: "A Chinaman''s Chance" | |
Would-ve voluntary immigrants: Chinese poets on Angel Island | |
Refugees | |
Oral history of Fannie Shamitz Friedman, "There Was Nothing to Come Home to" | |
From African to African American | |
Olaudah Equiano: "...the Manners and Customs of My Country...Had Been Implanted in Me with Great Care..." | |
Frederick Douglass: "I Do Not Recollect of Ever Seeing My Mother by the Light of Day" | |
Finding meaning in tradition: Red Jacket''s testimony | |
The conquered Mexicans of the Southwest: Letter from the Santa Fe Jail, Reies Lopez Tijerina Suggestions for further reading | |
Unit Two: Defining Self, Defining Others | |
Introduction: On Being Different and "Undifferent" in the United States | |
Harriet Jacobs: The Sexual and Moral Hazards of Growing Up a Female Slave | |
Ohiyesa: An Indian Brave Confronts Civilization | |
Helena Maria Viramontes: The Chicana Legacy | |
Lloyd Van Brund, The racial measure of the poor white''s failure | |
James Jaewhan Lee, "I am Learning how to Confront Elephants..." | |
Judy Scales-Trent, "On Being Black and White, Different and the Same" | |
Representations of Prejudice and Ethnocentricity | |
Inventing the Indian: The Account of Amerigo Vespucci | |
The English Construction of the New England Savage: Three Portrayals | |
History of Plymouth Plantation | |
New England''s First Fruits: "In Respect of the Indians, Etc." | |
From John Winthrop''s Journal | |
Prejudice Masked as Humor: Harriet Stowe Jumps Jim Crow | |
Thomas Dartmouth Rice, Jim Crow | |
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom''s Cabin | |
The Perpetuation of Racial Humor | |
From Twain''s Adventure''s of Huckelberry Finn | |
Kemble on Illustrating Huckleberry Finn | |
From E. W. Kemble''s A Coon Alphabet | |
The Deadly Effects of Discrimination | |
Communities In Historical Perspective | |
Communities in an Expanding Nation | |
The Nineteen Century | |
Community as Survival: Solidarity and Celebration in the Slave Quarters | |
"Yes, the love of God is best...", The Oneida Community | |
Education, Americanization, and Community: The Ethnic Press | |
Solidarity and Diversity in Women''s Communities | |
"Daughters of Freemen Still" | |
Millworkers Proclaim a Strike at Lowell, Massachusetts, 1834 | |
"The Sound of Our Own Voices," A Women''s Study Club | |
"...to elevate our race": Report of the Phillis Wheatley Club | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | |
Continuity and Change: Communities in the Twentieth Century | |
The Labor Movement in the Progressive Era: Congressional Hearings on the Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912 | |
Community Activisim After the Black Civil Rights Revolution | |
National Organization for Women: An Invitation to Join | |
A Chicano Feminist Manifesto | |
Black Pride and Disability Pride: "Malcolm Teaches Us, Too" | |
Communities in Conflict in South Central Los Angeles, 1991 | |
Alice Choi on Korean -- Black Tensions | |
"...It''s a misunderstanding of one another": University of California Students | |
Discuss the Los Angeles Riot | |
"Sharing the Journey": The Small Group Movement | |
"Today''s Strength from Yesterday''s Traditions": Northern Arapaho Indian Women | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | |
Permission To Enter And The Right To Belong | |
Opening and Closing the Door: The Debate over Immigration | |
A Friend of Immigrants: At the Height of Nativism a Doctor Publishes a Lecture in Favor of Immigration | |
Raising Alarm: An Antiimmigration Politician Speaks at the Convention to Revise the Constitytion of Kentucky | |
Proimmigration Reform: The President of the United States Argues for the Elimination of National Origin Quotas, 1963 | |
Doubts on Assimilation: A Conservative Deomgrapher Does not Think that Third World Immigrants Will Adapt to U.S. Culture, 1990 | |
On Being an American in a Pluralistic Society: A Hispanic View, 1986 | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | |
The State, Citizenship, and Naturalization | |
Deciding Membership in the American Political Community: The First National | |
Debate on Naturalization and Citizenship, 1790 | |
Is It Too Easy to Become an American?, 1845 | |
The Experience of Becoming a Citizen: New York City, 1900 | |
Exclusion: Race and Powerlessness | |
Shared Political Values and Language Inform the Effort to Combat Exclusion: American Women, 1848 | |
Excluding Asians, 1889 | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | |
Enduring Conflicts | |
The Question of a National Language | |
They Should Speak English: Benjamin Franklin Complains About the Germans in Pennsylvania, 1753 | |
Attempting to Establish English as the Official Language: Three Proposed | |
Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, 1981, 1983, 1989 | |
Language and Equality in Education: The Supreme Court Lau Decisions, 1974 | |
Speaking for English as the Official Language: A U.S. Senator Explains Why He Is Sponsoring an English Language Amendment to the Constitution, 1983 | |
Against Official English: A U.S. Representative Explains Why There Should no Be an English Language Constitutional Amendment, 1988 | |
They Are not Learning English: The Secretary of Education Attacks Bilingual Education, 1985 | |
In Defense of Bilingual Education: A Response to Secretary Bennett''s Attack, 1985 | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | |
Church, State, and Society | |
Separating Church and State: What Did the Founders Have in Mind?, 1784 | |
A "Wall of Separation": Thomas Jefferson''s View, 1802 | |
Is the United States a "Christian Nation?": Justice David Brewer''s View, 1892 | |
Defining Boundaries for Church and State: School Prayer, 1962 | |
Defining Boundaries for Church and State: Federal Aid to Church-affiliated Private Schools, 1971 | |
An Outsider''s View of Christmas: "The Other Check," | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | |
Individual Rights or Group Rights? The Question of Affirmative Action | |
Against Set-asides: A Group of Jewish and Other White Ethnic Organizations | |
Submit a Brief to the Supreme Court, 1977 | |
"Affirmed in part and reversed in part": The Bakke Decision, 1978 | |
Affirmative Action Is not Damaging to Blacks or Unconstitutional: A Legal Scholar Refutes Objections to Affirmative Action, 1986 | |
Promoted Over a Male: The Diane Joyce Story, as Told by Susan Faludi, 1991 | |
White Males as Victims: Casualities of Affirmative Action, 1991 | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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