Race and ethnicity in America: a concise history

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Introduction 1. Ethnicity in Seventeenth-Century English America, 1600-1700, by Carol Berkin 2. Ethnicity in Eighteenth-Century North America, 1701-1788, by Graham Russell Hodges 3. The Limits of Equality: Race and Ethnic Tensions in the New Republic, 1789-1836, by Marion R. Casey 4. Racial and Ethnic Identity in the United States, 1837-1877, by Michael Miller Topp 5. Race, Nation, and Citizenship in Late Nineteenth-Century America, 1878-1900, by Mae M. Ngai 6. The Critical Period: Ethnic Emergence and Reaction, 1901-1929, by Andrew R. Heinze 7. Changing Racial Meanings: Race and Ethnicity in the United States, 1930-1964, by Thomas A. Guglielmo and Earl Lewis 8. Racial and Ethnic Relations in America, 1965-2000, by Timothy J. Meagher Conclusion