xiv, 584 pages : 24 cm

"The first anthology to collect readings on the historical and contemporary expereinces of western Native Americans, Mexican Americans, African Americans, and Asian Americans, Peoples of Color in the American West brings together essays by revisionist historians and social scientists who in recent years have rejected romanticized appraoches to western American history. Most of the readings treat peoples of color not as victims but as active agents in the making of the history of the American West. The editors encourage students to search for characteristics that several groups share and for patterns that persist from one historical period to the next, as well as for significant differences among groups. By juxtaposing readings, the editors do not imply that the histories of nonwhite peoples in the American West have been completely similar or that their cultures have been homogenous and static; rather, the aim is to highlight important commonalities, without slighting their differences. The editors' notes call students' attention to the contributions of these various groups to the economy, society, and cultures of the American West, as well as to the interracial and interethnic tensions. Not glossing over the latter is important, because as the United States increasingly becomes a multiethnic society, viable bases for cooperation will be found only through an understanding of the roots of conflict"--Back cover

Includes bibliographical references

Native peoples -- Invasion -- Migration -- Work -- Family --Community -- Culture -- Interactions -- Racism -- Resistance -- Politics -- Survival -- Wartime -- Protest -- Diversity

Introduction: Western American historiography and peoples of color / Sucheng Chan -- Native peoples. American Indians' ideas about themselves / Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz -- The Pueblo Indian world in the sixteenth century / Ramon A. Gutierrez -- Flathead life before the horse / John Fahey -- Ancient Hawaii: an agrarian society / Edward D. Beechert -- Invasion. North from Mexico / Carey McWilliams -- Freedmen and slaves in Oregon territory, 1840-1860 / Quintard Taylor -- Custer's last stand, 1876 / Robert M. Utley -- Women missionaries and cultural conquest, 1900-1914 / Sarah Deutsch -- Migration. Chinese immigration, 1848-1882 / Shih-shan Henry Tsai -- Travelcraft and black pioneer urbanites, 1850s-1870s / Douglas Henry Daniels -- A Mexican immigrant, 1910s-1920s / Manuel Gamio -- A Choctow Odyssey, 1900s-1950s / Charles Roberts -- Work. Indian labor in California in the 1850s / Albert L. Hurtado -- Chinese sugar plantation workers in Hawaii, 1860s-1900s / Clarence E. Glick -- African Americans in the cattle industry, 1900-1945 / Michael M. Smith -- Mexican women workers in Texas, 1880-1920 / Mario T. Garcia -- Family. Osage women, 1870-1980 / Terry P. Wilson -- The Japanese immigrant family, 1900s-1920s / Yuji Ichioka -- Chicano families in the Southwest, 1910-1945 / Richard Griswold del Castillo -- The immaculate pregnancy: Maya Angelou as teenage mother, 1946 / Maya Angelou -- Community. Chumash village life and social organization / Bruce W. Miller -- African-American women's clubs in Denver, 1890s-1920s / Lynda F. Dickson -- Filipino-American community organizations in Washington, 1900s-1930s / Jon D. Cruz -- Organizing undocumented immigrants, 1960s-1970s / Bert Corona, as told to Mario T. Garcia -- Culture. Religion and American Indians in the Pacific Northwest, 1850s-1890s / Clifford E. Trafzer and Margery Ann Beach -- Mexican-American identity and culture / Americo Paredes -- Japanese-language schools in Hawaii, 1890s-1920s / John N. Hawkins -- Count Basie and western swing, 1920s-1930s / William "Count" Basie, as told to Albert Murray -- Interactions. Slaves, freedmen, and Native Americans in Indian territory (Oklahoma), 1865-1907 / Donald A. Grinde, Jr. and Quintard Taylor -- The 1903 Oxnard sugar beet workers' strike / Tomas Almaguer -- California's Punjabi-Mexican Americans, 1910s-1970s / Karen Leonard -- Racism. African Americans in Nevada, 1860s-1920s / Elmer R. Rusco -- The "Mexican schools," 1890s-1930s / Gilbert G. Gonzalez -- Antimiscegenation laws and the Filipino, 1920s-1960s / Staff of the Asian American Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles -- Housing segregation in the Sunbelt, 1960s-1970s / Robert D. Bullard and Donald L. Tryman -- Jim Crow, Indian style, 1980s / Orlan J. Svingen -- Resistance. Asian Americans: resisting oppression, 1860s-1920s / Sucheng Chan -- Unionization and Mexican-American women, 1930s-1940s / Vicki L. Ruiz -- Tribal leaders and natural energy resources, 1970s-1980s / Donald L. Fixico -- Organizing in Black Los Angeles, 1960s / Angela Davis -- Politics. Korean nationalist politics in America, 1905-1945 / Kingsley K. Lyu -- The UNIA in Los Angeles, 1920s / Emory J. Tolbert -- Arapahoe politics in Wyoming, 1960s-1970s / Loretta Fowler -- The politics of status, 1950s / Mario T. Garcia -- Survival. The Mexican-American mind, 1930s / Richard A. Garcia -- The New Deal and the Jicarilla Apaches, 1930s / Veronica E. Velarde Tiller -- The Tlingits' struggle for ethnic survival in Alaska, 1860s-1980s / Duane Champagne -- Wartime. The incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II / Roger Daniels -- Navajo Code Talker, 1940s / Cozy Stanley Brown -- Civil-Rights leaders in San Francisco, 1940s / Albert S. Broussard -- Braceros in the Pacific Northwest, 1942-1947 / Erasmo Gamboa -- Protest. Chicano protest politics, 1960s / Carlos Munoz, Jr. -- Chicana feminist discourse, 1970s / Alma M. Garcia -- The Asian-American movement, 1960s-1980s / Sucheng Chan -- Black studies and higher education, 1960s-1980s / Karen Karlette Miller -- The occupation of Alcatraz Island, 1969-1970 / Judith Antell -- Diversity. Controlling the "new" Latino immigration, 1980s-present / David M. Reimers -- Korean Americans and the model minority myth, 1970s-present / Kwang Chung Kim and Won Moo Hurh -- Vietnamese artists and writers in America, 1975-present / Qui-Phiet Tran -- Hmong and Cambodian voices, 1970s-present / Mee Her, Ge Lor, Sirathra Som, and Solouth Soman

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