A different mirror : a history of multicultural America Ronald Takaki

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Takaki, Ronald T., 1939-2009

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minorities--United States--History.

Minorities.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

United States--Ethnic relations.

Cultural pluralism--United States--History.

Cultural pluralism.

Physical Description:

x, 529 pages, [20] pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.

Edition:

1st rev. ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Back Bay Books/Little, Brown, and Co., 2008.

Summary:

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. Now, Ronald Takaki has revised his landmark work and made it even more relevant and important. Among the new additions to the book are: the role of black soldiers in preserving the Union; the history of Chinese Americans from 1900-1941; an investigation into the hot-button issue of "illegal" immigrants from Mexico; and a look at the sudden visibility of Muslim refugees from Afghanistan. This new edition grapples with the raw truth of American history and examines the ultimate question of what it means to be an American.--From publisher description.

Contents:

1. A different mirror : the making of multicultural America.

pt. 1: Foundations

Before Columbus: Vinland

2. The "tempest" in the wilderness : a tale of two frontiers

Shakespeare's dream about America

English over Irish

English over Indian

Virginia: to "root out" Indians as a people

New England: the "utter extirpation" of Indians

Stolen lands: a world turned "upside down"

3. The hidden origins of slavery

A view from the cabins: black and white together

"English and Negroes in armes": Bacon's Rebellion

"White over Black."

pt. 2: Contradictions

The rise of the Cotton Kingdom

4. Towards "the stony mountains" : from removal to reservation

Andrew Jackson: "To ... tread on the graves of extinct nations"

The embittered human heart: The Choctaws

"The trail of tears" : The Cherokees

"American progress": "Civilization" over "savagery"

5. "No more peck o' corn" : slavery and its discontents

"North of slavery"

Was "Sambo" real?

Frederick Douglass: son of his master

Martin Delany: father of Black nationalism

"Tell Linkum dat we wants land"

6. Fleeing "the tyrant's heel" : "exiles" from Ireland

Behind the emigration: "John Bull must have the beef"

An "immortal Irish brigade" of workers

Irish "maids" and "factory girls"

"Green Power": the Irish "ethnic" strategy

7. "Foreigners in their native land" : the war against Mexico

"We must be conquerors or we are robbers"

Anglo over Mexican

8. Searching for Gold Mountain : strangers from a different shore

Pioneers from Asia

Twice a minority: Chinese women in America

A colony of "bachelors"

A sudden change in fortune: the San Francisco earthquake

"Caught in between": Chinese born in America.

pt. 3: Transitions

The end of the frontier: the emergence of an American empire

9. The "Indian question" : from reservation to reorganization

The massacre at Wounded Knee

Where the buffalo no longer roam

Allotment and assimilation

The Indian "New Deal": what kind of a "deal" was it?

10. Pacific crossings : from Japan to the land of "money trees"

Picture brides in America

Tears in the canefields

Transforming California: from deserts to farms

The Nisei: Americans by birth

11. The exodus from Russia : pushed by pogroms

A Shtetl in America

In the sweatshops: an army of garment workers

Daughters of the Colony

Up from "Greenhorns": crossing Delancey Street

12. El Norte : up from Mexico

Sprinkling the fields with the sweat of their brows

Tortillas and rotis: mixed marriages

On the other side of the tracks

The Barrio: a Mexican-American world

13. To "the land of hope" : Blacks in the urban North

"The wind said North"

The crucible of the city

Black pride in Harlem

"But a few pegs to fall": the Great Depression.

pt. 4: Transformations

The problem of the color lines

14. World War II : American dilemmas

Japanese Americans: "a tremendous hole" in the Constitution

African Americans: "bomb the color line"

Chinese Americans: to "silence the distorted Japanese propaganda"

Mexican Americans: up from the Barrio

Native Americans: why fight the White Man's way?

Jewish Americans: a "deafening silence"

A holocaust called Hiroshima

15. Out of the war : clamors for change

Rising winds for social justice

Raisins in the sun: dreams deferred

Asian Americans: a "model minority" for Blacks?

16. Again, the "tempest-tost"

From a "teeming shore": Russia, Ireland, and China

Dragon's teeth of fire: Vietnam

Wars of terror: Afghanistan

Beckoned North: Mexico

17. "We will all be minorities."

Notes:

"Originally published in hardcover by Little, Brown, and Company, June 1993"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-518) and index.

Winner, American Book Award--P. [1] of cover.

Local Notes:

The Balch Ethnic Studies Collection.

ISBN:

9780316022361

0316022365

OCLC:

227018471