Many voices, one nation: material culture reflections on race and migration in the United States

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"Many Voices, One Nation: Material Culture Reflections on Race and Migration in the United States shares in print the important stories, artifacts, images, and events featured in the National Museum of American History's eponymous exhibit. Through sixteen carefully selected essays from Smithsonian curators and affiliated scholars, this book reaches a broad audience and makes a major contribution to historical scholarship on the peopling of the United States and the field of material culture. Essays demonstrate how artifacts can be read to better understand issues related to nation, race and migration that have informed social interactions and cultural narratives locally, nationally, and globally. American culture and society emerges from exchanges between natives and newcomers, and these interactions constantly transform and enrich the nation. The variety of American stories and objects included in this volume brings our seemingly disparate pasts together to inspire possibilities for a shared future as we constantly reinterpret our e pluribus unum - our nation of many voices."--Provided by the publisher.;Welcome / John L. Gray -- Foreword / Gary Gerstle -- Introduction / Margaret Salazar-Porzio and Joan Fragaszy Troyano -- Unsettling the continent, 1492-1776 / Barbara Clark Smith -- Exploring the colonial history of New Mexico through artifacts / Ramón A. Gutiérrez -- Native American objects of memory and journey from the National Museum of the American Indian / Christopher Lindsay Turner -- Now/then, we/them? Toward a more global U.S. history / John Kuo Wei Tchen -- Creating and expanding the nation / Bonnie Campbell Lilienfeld -- Communities of refuge in frontier Illinois / Nancy Davis -- African American expression in antebellum America: the story of Dave Drake / Kym Rice -- Lady in the harbor: the Statue of Liberty as American Icon / Alan M. Kraut -- Contesting the nation, 1900-1965 / Fath Davis Ruffins -- Education and Americanization: the language of community / Joan Fragaszy Troyano and Debbie Scaefer-Jacobs -- Chicago's "concentric zones": thinking through the material history of an iconic map / Davarian L. Baldwin -- Pulling at the threads: a Korean American diptych / Sojin Kim -- New Americans, continuing debates, 1965-2014 / Margaret Salazar-Porzio -- Old south, new migrations / L. Stephen Velasquez -- Beyond apology and assertion in Beyond Bollywood / Masum Momaya -- The desert colossus: fragments of twenty-first-century undocumented migration / Jason de León -- Epilogue: our polycultural past and future century / Scott Kurashige.