Research Catalog

Title

Migrants, immigrants, and slaves : racial and ethnic groups in America / George Henderson, Thompson Olasiji.

Author

Henderson, George, 1932-

Publication

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, ©1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

Olasiji, Thompson Dele, 1948-

Description

x, 323 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subjects

• USA
• Ethnische Beziehungen
• Ethnische Gruppe
• Race relations
• Ethnic relations
• United States > Race relations
• United States > Ethnic relations
• Ethnology > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Illustrations -- Preface -- Ch. 1 No Place Like Home (starting p. 1) -- Ch. 2 Native Americans: Eastern Forest, Great Plains, Southwest, California Inter-Mountain, Northwest Coast (starting p. 23) -- The Trail of Tears (starting p. 43) / Grant Foreman -- Ch. 3 British and Irish: English, Welsh, Scotch-Irish, Scots, Irish (starting p. 49) -- Pride and Poverty: An Irish Integrity (starting p. 66) / William Alfred -- Ch. 4 Other Western, Central, and Northern Europeans: Germans, Swedes, Norwegians, Danes, Swiss, Dutch, French, Belgians, Finns (starting p. 71) -- The Furor Teutonicus: Upper Mississippi Abteilung (starting p. 104) / George Mann -- Ch. 5 Eastern Europeans: Slavs: Russians, Poles, Czechs and Slovaks, Yugoslavs, Bulgarians, Ukrainians (starting p. 111) -- Russians and Slavs at Scranton, 1913 (starting p. 129) / Stephen Graham -- Ch. 6 Eastern Europeans: Non-Slavs: Austrians, Hungarians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Romanians (starting p. 137) -- From Lithuania, 1901 (starting p. 149) / Pauline Newman -- Ch. 7 Southern Europeans: Italians, Greeks, Portuguese, Spanish (starting p. 155) -- To the Land of Promise: The Italian Exodus to America (starting p. 172) / Alexander DeConde -- Ch. 8 Asians: Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, Koreans, Vietnamese (starting p. 179) -- The Nisei Arrive (starting p. 199) / Bill Hosokawa -- Ch. 9 Immigrants from the Americas, the West Indies, and the Caribbean: Mexicans, Canadians, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Dominicans, Jamaicans, Haitians, Central and South Americans (starting p. 207) -- With His Pistol in His Hand (starting p. 234) / Americo Paredes -- Ch. 10 Africans and African Americans (starting p. 239) -- The Negro Pitches His Tent (starting p. 260) / Roi Ottley -- Ch. 11 A Final View (starting p. 271) -- Index (starting p. 289)

ISBN

• 0819197386
• 9780819197382

LCCN

94037968

OCLC

• ocm31240285
• 31240285
• SCSB-2042659

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library