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OPT · A Different Mirror
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FRONT MATTER
Front matter
CHAPTER 1 · OPT 3–20A Different Mirror: The Making of Multicultural America
PART INTRODUCTION · OPT 21–25Part One: Foundations / Before Columbus: Vinland
CHAPTER 2 · OPT 26–48The "Tempest" in the Wilderness: A Tale of Two Frontiers
CHAPTER 3 · OPT 49–72The Hidden Origins of Slavery
PART INTRODUCTION · OPT 73–78Part Two: Contradictions / The Rise of the Cotton Kingdom
CHAPTER 4 · OPT 79–97Toward "the Stony Mountains": From Removal to Reservation
CHAPTER 5 · OPT 98–130"No More Peck o’ Corn": Slavery and Its Discontents
CHAPTER 6 · OPT 131–154Fleeing "the Tyrant’s Heel": "Exiles" from Ireland
CHAPTER 7 · OPT 155–176"Foreigners in Their Native Land": The War Against Mexico
CHAPTER 8 · OPT 177–206Searching for Gold Mountain: Strangers from a Different Shore
PART INTRODUCTION · OPT 207–213Part Three: Transitions / The End of the Frontier: The Emergence of an American Empire
CHAPTER 9 · OPT 214–231The "Indian Question": From Reservation to Reorganization
CHAPTER 10 · OPT 232–261Pacific Crossings: From Japan to the Land of "Money Trees"
CHAPTER 11 · OPT 262–291The Exodus from Russia: Pushed by Pogroms
CHAPTER 12 · OPT 292–310El Norte: Up from Mexico
CHAPTER 13 · OPT 311–336To "the Land of Hope": Blacks in the Urban North
PART INTRODUCTION · OPT 337–340Part Four: Transformations / The Problem of the Color Lines
CHAPTER 14 · OPT 341–382World War II: American Dilemmas
CHAPTER 15 · OPT 383–404Out of the War: Clamors for Change
CHAPTER 16 · OPT 405–433Again, the "Tempest-Tost"
CHAPTER 17 · OPT 434–440"We Will All Be Minorities"
AUTHOR NOTEAuthor's Note: Epistemology and Epiphany
NOTESNotes
INDEXIndex
BACK MATTERAuthor biography, blank leaf and back cover
