volume editor. Chicanas/Chicanos and Mexican Americans in contemporary society. Guadalupe Compeán, volume editor. Revolutionary war era and the early republic (1760-1830) -- Antebellum slavery (1830-1860) -- Civil war and reconstruction (1861-1877) -- Jim Crow (1877-1920) -- Harlem Renaissance through World War II (1920-1950) -- Civil rights movement (1950-1970) -- Post Civil rights era and the new millennium (1970-present) -- Volume 2: American Indian Experience / James E. Seelye Jr., volume editor. Creation stories and first contact to 1715 -- Imperial crisis (1716-1826) -- Fighting the United States : winning and losing (1827-1877) -- Attempt to regain the past (1878-1920) -- New Deal and a turn to the militant (1921-1973) -- Coexistence (1974-present) -- Volume 3: Asian American and Pacific Islander Experience / Emily Moberg Robinson, volume editor. General Asian American -- American Samoans -- Bangladeshi Americans -- Cambodian Americans -- Chinese Americans -- Filipino Americans -- Guamanian Americans -- Native Hawaiian Americans -- Himalayan Americans -- Hmong Americans -- Indian Americans -- Indonesian Americans -- Japanese Americans -- Korean Americans -- Lao Americans -- Malaysian Americans -- Pakistani Americans -- Sri Lankan Americans -- Thai Americans -- Vietnamese Americans -- Multiheritage Americans -- Volume 4: Latino American Experience / Guadalupe Compeán, volume editor. Colonies of new Spain (1500-1802) -- Struggles for independence (1803-1846) -- Mexican - American war -- Defining the U.S. - Mexico border -- Voices Mexicanas (1850s-1870s) -- Concepts of land (1848-1900) -- Latinos and independence movements south of the border (1848-1860) -- Occupation : the United States in the Caribbean and central America (1898-present) -- Push and pull of Mexican immigration to the United States -- Puerto Rico and Cuba : gateways to the Americas -- Acculturation of Latino immigrants in the early 20th century -- Latinos and the Great Depression of the 1930s -- Mexican Americans and the Great Depression of the 1930s -- Latinos, World War II, and the aftermath -- Mexican Americans, World War II, and the aftermath -- Latino Civil Rights efforts -- Chicano movement -- Latinos (1980-2010) -- Chicanas/Chicanos and Mexican Americans in contemporary society.
Summary:
"Firsthand sources are brought together to illuminate the diversity of American history in a unique way--by sharing the perspectives of people of color who participated in landmark events"-- Provided by publisher.
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