Ethnic Dimension in American History

James S. Olson is Distinguished Professor of History at Sam Houston State University, Texas, where he has been honored with the university's Excellence in Teaching and Excellence in Research Awards. He is the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of over 30 books. His book Bathsheba's Breast: Women, Cancer, and History (2002) won the History of Science Category Award from the Association of American Publishers and was recognized by the Los Angeles Times as one of the best non-fiction books in America for 2002.Heather Olson Beal is Assistant Professor of Secondary Education and Educational Leadership at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas.

• Introduction 1Part I Worlds Collide: Indian People, Africans, and Europeans in Colonial America 71 The First Americans 172 The European Migrations 293 Ethnicity and Manifest Destiny 584 African Americans in the Early Years 92Conclusion: Ethnic America in 1890 113Part II Ethnic America in Transition, 1890–1945 1215 The Age of the New Immigrants 1286 American Jews 1517 Asian America, 1882–1945 1658 The Nativist Reaction 1799 Native Americans: The Assault on Tribalism 19110 Jim Crow and Ghettos: African Americans 20511 Mexican Americans 218Conclusion: Ethnic America in 1945 230Part III Change and Continuity in Ethnic America, 1945 to the Present 24112 The African Americans 24613 The Latino Mosaic 26314 Asian Americans in the Modern World 28215 The Newest Arrivals 29816 Native Americans in the Modern World 31417 White Ethnics in Modern America 329Conclusion: Ethnic America in 2010 345Selected Readings 357Index 364