American crucible: race and nation in the twentieth century

Introduction

Theodore Roosevelt's racialized nation, 1890-1900

Civic nationalism and its contradictions, 1890-1917

Hardening the boundaries of the nation, 1917-1929

The Rooseveltian nation ascendant, 1930-1940

Good war, race war, 1941-1945

The Cold War, anticommunism, and a nation in flux, 1946-1960

Civil rights, white resistance, and Black nationalism, 1960-1968

Vietnam, cultural revolt, and the collapse of the Rooseveltian nation, 1968-1975

Epilogue: Beyond the Rooseveltian nation, 1975-2000.