The Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America by Bayor, Ronald -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Half title Title Copyright Credits Dedication Contents Introduction Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Ethnicity in Seventeenth-Century English America, 1600–1700

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A Letter from a Gentleman of the City of New-York to Another, Concerning the Troubles which happen’d in That Province in the Time of the late Happy Revolution, 1698 The Beginning, Progress, and Conclusion of Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia, In the Years 1675 and 1676 Edward Winslow, “Chapter 7,” Good Newes from New England, 1624 Peter Schaghen to the Directors of the West India Company, 1626 Richard Frethorne to His Father and Mother, March 20, April 2 and 3, 1623 Powhatan [Wahunsonacock] to John Smith, 1609 Reverend Samuel Smith to Ichabod Smith, January 1698/99 Declaration or Confession of [Roger] Court Crotosse, 1684 “Whereas Hugh Gwyn …,” July 9, 1640 John Rolfe to Sir Thomas Dale, 1614 Petition of Jewish Merchants, January 1655 The Case of Maria Negro, 1681 Declaration Against the Proceedings of Nathaniel Bacon, 1676 An Act Defining the Status of Mulatto Bastards, December 1662 Petition of Richard Saltonstall, 1645 The Remonstrance of the Inhabitants of Flushing, Long Island, Against the Law Against Quakers and Subsequent Proceedings, January 1, 1658 William Bradford Describes His Encounter with Samoset, 1621 Rev. Johannes Megapolensis to the Classis of Amsterdam, March 18, 1655 Statement Showing Wherein Capt. Daniel Brodhead Has Exceeded the Instruction Given by the Honorable Richard Nicols, Governor General, April 25, 1667 Petition of Marylanders, November 20, 1690 and the Response to the Petition by John Coode and Kenelm Cheseldine, December 22, 1690 Benjamin Tompson, New England’s Crisis, 1676 Vincent Bigot’s Report, “Of the Piety and Devotion of the Christian Iroquois,” 1677 Testimony of Marmaduke Stevenson, 1659

Chapter 2. Ethnicity in Eighteenth-Century North America, 1701–1788

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Indian Women of Cabo San Lucas, c. 1746 Detailed Reports on the Salzburger Emigrants Who Settled in America, 1749 The Life, History, and Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea, the African Preacher, c. 1800 Journal of Nicolas Collin, 1746—183 1: Extract of the Most Noteworthy Transactions During My Incumbency as Rector at the Raccoon and Pensneck Congregations, from September 30, 1773 Life of the Reverend Devereux Jarratt, Written by Himself: Excerpts, 1806 Itinerarium of Dr. Alexander Hamilton, 1744 List of Different Nations and Tribes of Indians, Early 1700s J. Hector St. John Crèvecoeur, “What Is an American?” 1783 Miami Deaths of 1732, Report of Jean-Charles d’Arnaud, 1732 The Independent Reflector, William Livingston on Kings College, 1753 Thomas Jefferson, “Notes on the State of Virginia,” 1783 “A Gouging Match”; “A Backwoods Ball and Fight,” c. 1780s Rev. Alexander Stewart to Rev. John Waring, 1764; Rev. Samuel Auchmuty to Rev. John Waring, 1761 Abigail Franks to Naphtali Franks, June 7, 1743 Daniel Horsmanden, The New York Conspiracy, 1741

Chapter 3. The Limits of Equality: Racial and Ethnic Tensions in the New Republic, 1789–1836

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Sarah Cary to Samuel Cary, July 1792 Timothy Pickering to Anthony Wayne, April 8, 1795 Constitution of The New-York Society for the Information and Assistance of Persons Emigrating from Foreign Countries, 1794 The Naturalization of Immigrants, 1795 Edward Livingston, “Against the Alien Act,” 1798 Red Jacket, “Against White Missions Among the Indians,” 1805 United German Benefit Society, By-Laws of the United German Benefit Society: Agreed upon at Various Meetings, 1799 Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves, March 2, 1807 Margaret Van Horn Dwight, A Journey to Ohio in 1810 Petition of the Trustees of the Congregation of Shearith Israel, 1811 William Sampson, “The Catholic Question in America, Disclosing the Secrets of Auricular Confession,” 1813 Paul Cuffe, Memorial Petition to Congress, 1813 John Walker, A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language, 1818 John Doyle to His Wife, January 25, 1818 The Shamrock Friendly Association, 1818 Hezekiah Niles, “Editorial,” August 8, 1818 Jesse Torrey, A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery in the United States, 1816 Stockbridge, Maine, 1818 By a Lady, Catherine Brown, the Converted Cherokee, 1819 Anonymous, Clear and Concise Statement of New-York and the Surrounding Country, 1819 Pennsylvania General Assembly, Resolutions Relative to Preventing the Introduction of Slavery into New States, 1819 Catherine Sedgwick, Journal, June 1821 Travels by Duke Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Through North America, 1825, 1826 William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator, January 1, 1831 Mathew Carey, Letters on the Colonization Society, 1832 Burning of Ursaline Convent, 1834 Samuel F. B. Morse, Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States, 1834 Andrew Jackson, “Removal of Southern Indians to Indian Territory,” December 7, 1835 George Templeton Strong, “Mass at St. Patrick’s,” 1836 William L. Stone, The True History of Maria Monk, October 8, 1836

Chapter 4. Racial and Ethnic Identity in the United States, 1837–1877

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Martin Weitz, Rockville, Connecticut, to His Relatives in Schotten, Vogelsberg, Germany, July 29, 1855 Angela Heck, New York, New York, to Her Relatives in Irrel, Trier, Germany, October 26, 1862 German Society in Chicago, Annual Report, 1857–1858 August Spies, Autobiography, 1886 John O’Sullivan, “Annexation,” 1845 Mary Anne Sadlier, Bessy Conway or, The Irish Girl in America, 1861 John Francis Maguire, The Irish in America, 1868 Dennis Kearney, “History of the American Working Classes,” 1878 Act to Protect Free White Labor Against Competition with Chinese Coolie Labor, and to Discourage the Immigration of the Chinese into the State of California, 1862 Colonel Albert S. Evans, “A Cruise on the Barbary Coast,” 1873 The Chinese—Facts for Atlantic Papers, 1874 The Page Law, 1875 Richard Henry Dana, “California and Its Inhabitants,” 1840 Antoinio María Osio, “The History of Alta California,” 1851 The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, as Ratified by the United States and Mexican Governments, 1848 Juan Seguin, “Personal Memoirs,” 1858 Juan Cortina Rebellion in the 1850s Solomon Northup, Slave Auction, 1853 Harriet Jacobs, A Slave’s Account, 1861 From James Henry Gooding to Abraham Lincoln, September 28, 1863 Letter from Hannah Johnson to Abraham Lincoln, July 31, 1863 Black Code of St. Landry’s Parish, Louisiana, 1865 From Jourdon Anderson to Colonel P. H. Anderson, August 7, 1865 Elias Hill, Testimony Before the Congressional Committee Investigating the Ku Klux Klan, 1871 Little Bear, “The Sand Creek Massacre,” 1864 Herrero, “The Navajo Long Walk,” 1860s Wooden Leg, The Battle Against Custer, 1876 Old Lady Horse, The Disappearance of the Buffalo, 1882

Chapter 5. Race, Nation, and Citizenship in Late Nineteenth-Century America, 1878–1900

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“The Life Story of a Negro Peon,” 1904 Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 Ida B. Wells, “Southern Horrors,” 1892 “A Colored Complaint,” 1883 Booker T. Washington, “Atlanta Compromise,” September 18, 1895 W. E. B. Du Bois, “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others,” 1903 Standing Bear, Protest, 1879 Field Matron’s Job Description, 1892 “Omaha Discuss Allotment,” 1881 Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock, 1903 “Kiansis I,” c. 1870 In re Rodriguez, 1897 Leong Shee, Testimony, April 18, 1893 An Agreement Paper by the Person Mee Yung, 1875 Chinese in Napa Asylum, 1912 Robert Ferrari, Autobiography, 1950 Jacob A. Riis, How the Other Half Lives, 1890 “Immigration Restriction,” 1896 Queen Liliuokalani Defends Her Kingdom, 1893 Lorrin A. Thurston, A Handbook on the Annexation of Hawaii, 1897 Rudyard Kipling, “The White Man’s Burden,” 1899; Bruce Grit, “Why Talk of the White Man’s Burden?” 1899 William Jennings Bryan, Savannah Interview, December 13, 1898 Emilio Aguinaldo, Proclamation to the Philippine People, February 5, 1899 “Consent of the Governed,” 1900 “Mark Twain’s Salutation to the Century,” 1900

Chapter 6. The Critical Period: Ethnic Emergence and Reaction, 1901–1929

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“The South and Mr. Roosevelt,” 1901 “Immigration,” from Mr. Dooley, 1902 W. E. B. Du Bois, “Of Our Spiritual Strivings,” 1903 Gernimo, Gernimo: His Own Story, 1906 Leonard Covello, The Heart Is the Teacher, 1958 George Kennan, “The Japanese in the San Francisco Public Schools,” 1907 Theodore Roosevelt to Philander Knox, February 8, 1909 Letters to Forverts (Jewish Daily Forward), 1909 Theodora Kroeber, “Outside the Slaughter House,” 1961 Horace M. Kallen, “Democracy Versus the Melting-Pot,” 1915 Wartime Memos to Hugo Munsterberg, 1914–1916 W. E. B. Du Bois, “Close Ranks,” July 1918; “Returning Soldiers,” May 1919 Marcus Garvey, “National Anthem of Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League,” 1918 Willa Cather, My Ántonia, 1918 W. I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki, The Polish Peasant in Europe and America, 1927 The Chicago Commission on Race Relations, The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot, 1922 Carl C. Brigham, A Study of American Intelligence, 1923 Franz Boas, “The Question of Racial Purity,” 1924 Gong Lum v. Rice, 1927 The Mexican Immigrant, 1926–1927 Fats Waller, “Black and Blue,” 1929

Chapter 7. Changing Racial Meanings: Race and Ethnicity in the United States, 1930–1964

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Frances Perkins to Mr. Arthur Krock, April 22,1940 Ashley Montagu, Man’s Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race, 1942 Declaration of Intention (to Naturalize) for Joseph Imburgia, Chicago, Illinois, July 25, 1939 Helen Jackson Lee, Nigger in the Window, 1978 NAACP on Black Schoolteachers’ Fight for Equal Pay, c. 1940 George Streator to W. E. B. Du Bois, April 18, 1935 Ella Earls Cotton, A Spark for My People, 1954 Chinese ILGWU Activity in 1930s California Mexican American Workers Join the CIO, 1939 Tydings-McDuffie Act, 1934 Wheeler-Howard Act, June 18, 1934 Zoot Suit Riot, 1943 Japanese American Protests Internment, July 26, 1943 Restrictive Covenant, Pittsfield Township, Michigan, November 27, 1941 Memorandum from Elmer Henderson to Will Maslow, December 20, 1944 Jackie Robinson to President Dwight Eisenhower, 1958

Chapter 8. Racial and Ethnic Relations in America, 1965–2000

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Malcolm X, Speech, 1964 Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton, Black Power, 1967 Native American Graves and Repatriation Act, 1990 Huey Newton, Interview, 1968, and Black Panther Party Platform, 1966 National Black Political Agenda, 1972 Molefi Kete Asante, The Afrocentric Idea, 1987 Vine Deloria Jr., “This Country Was a Lot Better Off When the Indians Were Running It,” March 1970 “We Must Hold On to the Old Ways,” December 16, 1969 El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan, 1969 La Raza Unida Party, “Preamble,” 1969 Asian American Political Alliance, 1969 Amy Uyematsu, “The Emergence of Yellow Power in America,” 1969 Reparations for Japanese-American Internees, April 20, 1988 Jesse Jackson, Speech to Democratic Convention, 1984 Kerner Commission Report, 1968 Jews and Blacks, Ocean-Hill Brownsville School Controversy, 1969 Michael Novak, The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics, 1971 Monsignor Geno Baroni, 1975, and Gerard Muench, 1975, The White Ethnic Revival Lee Iacocca, Remarks to the Ethnic Heritage Council of the Pacific Northwest, 1984 Mario Cuomo, “Abraham Lincoln and Our ‘Unfinished Work,’” February 12, 1986 Michael McDonald, All Souls: A Family Story from Southie, Boston and Busing, 1999 Immigration Reform and Control Act, and Statement of President Ronald Reagan, 1986 Patrick J. Buchanan, “West’s Doors Closing?” June 7, 1993 Amendment to the Constitution on Affirmative Action, and Statement of Martin Kilson, 1983 The Bakke Case, 1978 President Lyndon Johnson, Commencement Address at Howard University, “To Fulfill These Rights,” June 4, 1965 “One Nation, Many People: A Declaration of Cultural Independence,” 1991 Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Multiculturalism, 1992 Oakland, California, School Board and Ebonics, 1996 California, Proposition 227, Bilingual Education, 1998 “Understanding the L.A. Riot,” Los Angeles Times, 1992 Trial Transcript from the O. J. Simpson Trial, 1995 Million Man March, Louis Farrakhan’s Statement and The Black Woman’s Statement of Support, 1995 Commission on Race, Town Meeting, 1997

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