Race and Ethnicity in America: A Concise History Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
1	Ethnicity in Seventeenth-Century English America, 1600-1700	1
2	Ethnicity in Eighteenth-Century North America, 1701-1788	21
3	The Limits of Equality: Racial and Ethnic Tensions in the New Republic, 1789-1836	41
4	Racial and Ethnic Identity in the United States, 1837-1877	63
5	Race, Nation, and Citizenship in Late Nineteenth-Century America, 1878-1900	96
6	The Critical Period: Ethnic Emergence and Reaction, 1901-1929	131
7	Changing Racial Meanings: Race and Ethnicity in the United States, 1930-1964	167
8	Racial and Ethnic Relations in America, 1965-2000	193
	Conclusion	241
	Contributors	247
	Index	251