INCLUDES BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES AND INDEX.

Different mirror -- "Tempest" in the wilderness: the racialization of savagery -- "Giddy multitude": the hidden origins of slavery -- Toward the stony mountains: from removal to reservation -- No more peck o' corn: slavery and its discontents -- Emigrants from Erin: ethnicity and class within white America -- Foreigners in their native land: manifest destiny in the southwest -- Searching for gold mountain: strangers from a Pacific shore -- "Indian question": from reservation to reorganization -- Pacific crossings: seeking the land of money trees -- Between "two endless days": the continuous journey to the promised land -- El Norte: the borderland of Chicano America -- To the promised land: blacks in the urban north -- Through a glass darkly: toward the twenty-first century.