A Different Mirror A History of Multicultural America

by Takaki, Ronald; Smith, Clint

• ISBN13: 9780316499071
• ISBN10: 0316499072
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780316022361
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2023-03-07
• Publisher: Back Bay Books
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Summary

Ronald Takaki's beloved revisionist history of America, praised by Howard Zinn as "a bold and refreshing new approach to our national history," now featuring a foreword from Clint Smith, author of the award-winning #1 bestseller How the Word Is Passed.

Ronald Takaki's "brilliant revisionist history of America" (Publishers Weekly) is a landmark work of American history retells American history from the bottom up, through the lives of many minorities — Native Americans, African Americans, Jewish Americans, Irish Americans, Asian Americans, Latino Americans, and others — who helped create this country's mighty economy and rich mosaic culture. 

A Different Mirror brilliantly illuminates our country's defining strengths as it reveals America as a nation peopled by the world. 

Author Biography

Ronald Takaki (1939-2009) established the Ethnic Studies Ph.D. program at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught for thirty years. He was the author of six books, including Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans and Double Victory: A Multicultural History of America in World War II.