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:

ix, 508 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Little, Brown & Co., c1993.

Summary:

A presentation of American history from a multi-cultural perspective, focusing on a broader and comparative approach to enhance the possibility of understanding and appreciating America's racial and cultural diversity.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 430-493) and index.

Local Notes:

The Balch Institute Library and Archives.

ISBN:

0316831123

9780316831123

0316831115

9780316831116

OCLC:

26858126