A Different Mirror A History of Multicultural America

by Takaki, Ronald

• ISBN13: 9780316022361
• ISBN10: 0316022365
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780316499071, 9780316831116
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-12-08
• Publisher: LB BACKBAY
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Summary

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 recounted 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 --A look at the sudden visibility of Muslim refugees from Afghanistan. This new edition of A Different Mirror 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.

Author Biography

Ronald Takaki designed and led the Ethnic Studies Ph.D. program at the University of California, Berkley until his retirement in 2004. He is the author of six books, including Strangers from a Different Shore. He lives in Berkeley, California.

Table of Contents

A Different Mirror: The Making of Multicultural America	p. 3
Foundations
Before Columbus: Vinland	p. 23
The "Tempest" in the Wilderness: A Tale of Two Frontiers	p. 26
Shakespeare's Dream About America	p. 27
English Over Irish	p. 28
English Over Indian	p. 30
Virginia: To "Root Out" Indians as a People	p. 34
New England: The "Utter Extirpation" of Indians	p. 37
Stolen Lands: A World Turned "Upside Down"	p. 44
The Hidden Origins of Slavery	p. 49
A View from the Cabins: Black and White Together	p. 51
"English and Negroes in Armes": Bacon's Rebellion	p. 57
"White Over Black"	p. 62
Contradictions
The Rise of the Cotton Kingdom	p. 75
Toward "the Stony Mountains": From Removal to Reservation	p. 79
Andrew Jackson: "To...Tread on the Graves of Extinct Nations"	p. 79
The Embittered Human Heart: The Choctaws	p. 83
"The Trail of Tears": The Cherokees	p. 87
"American Progress": "Civilization" Over "Savagery"	p. 91
"No More Peck o' Corn": Slavery and Its Discontents	p. 98
"North of Slavery"	p. 99
Was "Sambo" Real?	p. 102
Frederick Douglass: Son of His Master	p. 113
Martin Delany: Father of Black Nationalism	p. 118
"Tell Linkum Dat We Wants Land"	p. 122
Fleeing "the Tyrant's Heel": "Exiles" from Ireland	p. 131
Behind the Emigration: "John Bull Must Have the Beef"	p. 132
An "Immortal Irish Brigade" of Workers	p. 137
Irish "Maids" and "Factory Girls"	p. 145
"Green Power": The Irish "Ethnic" Strategy	p. 151
"Foreigners in Their Native Land": The War Against Mexico	p. 155
"We Must Be Conquerors or We Are Robbers"	p. 155
Anglo Over Mexican	p. 164
Searching for Gold Mountain: Strangers from a Different Shore	p. 177
Pioneers from Asia	p. 178
Twice a Minority: Chinese Women in America	p. 191
A Colony of "Bachelors"	p. 195
A Sudden Change in Fortune: The San Francisco Earthquake	p. 200
"Caught in Between": Chinese Born in America	p. 203
Transitions
The End of the Frontier: The Emergence of an American Empire	p. 209
The "Indian Question": From Reservation to Reorganization	p. 214
The Massacre at Wounded Knee	p. 214
Where the Buffalo No Longer Roam	p. 216
Allotment and Assimilation	p. 220
The Indian "New Deal": What Kind of a "Deal" Was It?	p. 225
Pacific Crossings: From Japan to the Land of "Money Trees"	p. 232
Picture Brides in America	p. 233
Tears in the Canefields	p. 237
Transforming California: From Deserts to Farms	p. 252
The Nisei: Americans by Birth	p. 259
The Exodus from Russia: Pushed by Pogroms	p. 262
A Shtetl in America	p. 267
In the Sweatshops: An Army of Garment Workers	p. 271
Daughters of the Colony	p. 275
Up from "Greenhorns": Crossing Delancey Street	p. 280
El Norte: Up from Mexico	p. 292
Sprinkling the Fields with the Sweat of Their Brows	p. 295
Tortillas and Rotis: Mixed Marriages	p. 300
On the Other Side of the Tracks	p. 302
The Barrio: A Mexican-American World	p. 307
To "the Land of Hope": Blacks in the Urban North	p. 311
"The Wind Said North"	p. 312
The Crucible of the City	p. 318
Black Pride in Harlem	p. 325
"But a Few Pegs to Fall": The Great Depression	p. 332
Transformations
The Problem of the Color Lines	p. 339
World War II: American Dilemmas	p. 341
Japanese Americans: "A Tremendous Hole" in the Constitution	p. 342
African Americans: "Bomb the Color Line"	p. 350
Chinese Americans: To "Silence the Distorted Japanese Propaganda"	p. 359
Mexican Americans: Up from the Barrio	p. 361
Native Americans: "Why Fight the White Man's War?"	p. 367
Jewish Americans: A "Deafening Silence"	p. 371
A Holocaust Called Hiroshima	p. 380
Out of the War: Clamors for Change	p. 383
Rising Winds for Social Justice	p. 383
Raisins in the Sun: Dreams Deferred	p. 396
Asian Americans: A "Model Minority" for Blacks?	p. 402
Again, the "Tempest-Tost"	p. 405
From a "Teeming Shore": Russia, Ireland, and China	p. 406
Dragon's Teeth of Fire: Vietnam	p. 411
Wars of Terror: Afghanistan	p. 418
Beckoned North: Mexico	p. 426
"We Will All Be Minorities"	p. 434
Author's Note: Epistemology and Epiphany	p. 441
Notes	p. 447
Index	p. 519
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