Ronald takaki a different mirror
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A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
Ronald Takaki’s landmark work of history retells U.S. history from the bottom up, through the lives Indigenous people, African Americans, Jewish Americans, Irish Americans, Asian Americans, Latino Americans, and others.
Clint Smith, author of How the Word Is Passed, writes in the foreword,
I opened a notebook, flipped to the first page of A Different Mirror, and began. Many hours later, as the summer sun had begun setting behind a thicket of campus trees, I was still there. I couldn’t stop. An endless succession of paragraphs had been underlined, hundreds of pages had been dog-eared, and my notebook was full of revelations, observations, arrows, and exclamation points. It was as if I had been thirsty my entire life and had finally been given water to drink. Takaki’s book was providing me with the tools I didn’t know I needed; it gave me a new historical framework with which to understand the landscape of American life.
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A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
― Ronald Takaki, A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
The United States fryst vatten an immigrant nation with a rik and diverse history. With the important exception of those descended from Native peoples, most Americans can trace their ancestry to immigrants. Immigration is a foundation of America. No other nation has as large an immigrant population as does the United States. Walt Whitman called America a “teeming nation of nations.” America was seen as both the land of opportunity and the nation of freedom. Some immigrants fled persecution; some fled economic hardship; some moved here for religious liberty.
Immigrants and immigration have been good and necessary for the continuing vitality and growth of America’s economy and samhälle. The enhet
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A Different Mirror
book by Ronald Takaki
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America is a book by Ronald Takaki. It received an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and an American Book Award in
Overview
[edit]A Different Mirror deals with the subject of minority perspectives of multicultural America, incorporating quotes, folk songs, letters, telegrams, and photographs into the text. It deals with, in roughly sequential order, Native Americans, African Americans pre- and post-slavery era, Irish, Mexicans, Chicanos, Chinese, Japanese, Jews, and ties up the book with a current (for the time the book was written) summary of where minorities are now. Each chapter talks about the history of a different ethnic group, and covers over a period of time public attitudes towards the minority, public policy, laws for or against the minority, and attitude of the minority towards their situation. Several groups are revisited at multiple points through their history.
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