Includes index.

Introduction: a different memory -- A declaration of war: "double victory" -- "Bomb the color line": the war against Jim Crow -- The original Americans: from battlefields to ceremonies -- A dream of El Norte: crossing the tracks -- Diversity and its discontents: who is an American? -- Remembering Pearl Harbor: from internment to Hiroshima -- Struggling for a world of "no race prejudice": Jewish Americans and the holocaust -- A multicultural "manifest destiny": we are "not a narrow tribe".