ISBN:
9780316499071
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0316499072
Language:
English
Pages:
xv, 529 pages
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illustrations
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22 cm
Edition:
Revised edition with new foreword
Series Statement:
A Back Bay Book
Series Statement:
History
Series Statement:
Multicultural studies
Series Statement:
Back Bay nonfiction
DDC:
305.800973
Keywords:
Minorities History
;
Cultural pluralism History
;
Ethnic relations
;
Minorities
;
Race relations
;
History
;
History
;
United States Race relations
;
History
;
United States Ethnic relations
;
History
;
United States
;
USA
;
Ethnische Beziehungen
;
Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
;
Minderheit
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
"Upon its first publication, A Different Mirror was hailed by critics and academics everywhere as a dramatic new retelling of our nation's past. Beginning with the colonization of the New World, it recounts the history of America in the voice of the non-Anglo peoples of the United States---Native Americans, African Americans, Jews, Irish Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, and others---groups who helped create this country's rich mosaic culture. From the role of black soldiers in preserving the Union to the history of Chinese Americans from 1900 to 1941, from an investigation into the issue of "illegal" immigrants from Mexico to a look at the sudden visibility of Muslim refugees from Afghanistan, Takaki's work is a remarkable achievement that grapples with the raw truth of American history and examines the ultimate question of what it means to be an American"--Provided by publisher
Description / Table of Contents:
Foreword -- A different mirror: the making of multicultural America -- The "tempest" in the wilderness: a tale of two frontiers -- The hidden origins of slavery -- Toward "the stony mountains": from removal to reservation -- "No more peck o' corn": slavery and its discontents -- Fleeing "the tyrant's heel": "exiles" from Ireland -- "Foreigners in their native land": the war against Mexico -- Searching for gold mountain: strangers from a different shore -- The "Indian question": from reservation to reorganization -- Pacific crossings: from Japan to the land of "money trees" -- The exodus from Russia: pushed by pogroms -- El Norte: up from Mexico -- To "the land of hope": Blacks in the urban north -- World War II: American dilemmas -- Our of the war: clamors for change -- Again, the "tempest-tost" -- "We will all be minorities"
Note:
"Originally published in hardcover by Little, Brown, and Company, June 1993."
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-518) and index
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