The Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America

Published by Columbia University Press 2004

The Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America

Edited by: Ronald Bayor

https://doi.org/10.7312/bayo11994

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Since the first European settlement in the New World, race, ethnicity, and related issues have loomed large in American history. This volume explores these topics, including not only the history of black-white interactions but also attitudes and reactions surrounding Protestants, Native Americans, Irish Catholics, Mexican Americans, Jewish Americans, and other groups. Each of the eight chronological chapters contains a survey essay, an annotated bibliography, and 20 to 30 related public and private documents, including manifestos, speeches, court cases, letters, memoirs, and much more.

All historians would agree that America is a nation of nations. But what does that mean in terms of the issues that have moved and shaped us as a people? Contemporary concerns such as bilingualism, incorporation/assimilation, dual identity, ethnic politics, quotas and affirmative action, residential segregation, and the volume of immigration resonate with a past that has confronted variations of these modern issues. The Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America, written and compiled by a highly respected team of American historians under the editorship of Ronald Bayor, illuminates the myriad ways in which immigration, racial, and ethnic histories have shaped the contours of contemporary American society.

This invaluable resource documents all eras of the American past, including black–white interactions and the broad spectrum of American attitudes and reactions concerning Native Americans, Irish Catholics, Mexican Americans, Jewish Americans, and other groups. Each of the eight chronological chapters contains a survey essay, an annotated bibliography, and 20 to 30 related public and private primary source documents, including manifestos, speeches, court cases, letters, memoirs, and much more. From the 1655 petition of Jewish merchants regarding the admission of Jews to the New Netherlands colony to an interview with a Chinese American worker regarding a 1938 strike in San Francisco, documents are drawn from a variety of sources and allow students and others direct access to our past.

Selections include

Powhatan to John Smith, 1609

Thomas Jefferson—"Notes on the State of Virginia"

Petition of the Trustees of Congregation Shearith Israel, 1811

Bessie Conway or, The Irish Girl in America

German Society in Chicago, Annual Report, 1857–1858.

"Mark Twain's Salutation to the Century"

W. E. B. DuBois, "Of Our Spiritual Strivings"

NAACP on Black Schoolteachers'Fight for Equal Pay

Malcom X speech, 1964

Hewy Newton interview and Black Panther Party platform

Preamble—La Raza Unida Party

Lee lacocca speech to Ethnic Heritage Council of the Pacific Northwest, 1984

Native American Graves and Repatriation Act, 1990

L.A. riot—from the Los Angeles Times, May 3, 15, 1992; Nov. 16, 19, 1992

Asian American Political Alliance

President Clinton's Commission on Race, Town Meeting, 1997

Louis Farrakhan—"The Vision for the Million Man March"

Author / Editor information

Ronald H. Bayor is professor of history in the School of History, Technology, and Society at the Georgia Institute of Technology's Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and recipient of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society's Distinguished Service award. He is the founding editor of the Journal of American Ethnic History and the author of many books, including Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta and Fiorello LaGuardia: Ethnicity and Reform. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Reviews

Miriam Guttman:
This book presents a good foundation for learning about different races, religion, and cultural groups in America.... The documents that follow are invaluable.

M. Meola:
The perceptive essays stand on their own...Recommended.

While issues dealing with the place of African Americans in US society naturally loom large, the material manages to be quite diverse, including such issues as the annexation of Hawaii...and a range of other topics under its purview.

Bayor has compiled a massive collection of primary-source documents dealing with 'the other' in America... lay readers and students will benefit highly.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xvii
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xxiii
Chapter 1. Ethnicity in seventeenth-century English America, 1600–1700 Carol Berkin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 2. Ethnicity in eighteenth-century North America, 1701–1788 Graham Russell Hodges Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Chapter 3. The Limits of Equality: Racial and Ethnic Tensions in the new Republic, 1789–1836 Marion R. Casey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Chapter 4. Racial and Ethnic Identity in the United States, 1837–1877 Michael Miller Topp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Chapter 5. Race, Nation, and Citizenship in Late Nineteenth-Century America, 1878–1900 Mae M. Ngai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
Chapter 6. The Critical Period: Ethnic Emergence and Reaction, 1901–1929 Andrew R. Heinze Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413
Chapter 7. Changing Racial Meanings: Race and Ethnicity in the United States, 1930–1964 Thomas A. Guglielmo and Earl Lewis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	599
Chapter 8. Racial and Ethnic Relations in America, 1965–2000 Timothy J. Meagher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	667
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	949
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	955
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	959
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	993

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
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Published: July 14, 2004
ISBN: 9780231508407