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Iron Cages Race and Culture in 19th-Century America

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ISBN-10: 019513737X

ISBN-13: 9780195137378

Edition: 2nd 2000 (Revised)

Authors: Ronald Takaki

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Now in a new edition, Iron Cages provides a unique comparative analysis of white American attitudes toward Asians, blacks, Mexicans, and Native Americans in the 19th century. This pathbreaking work offers a cohesive study of the foundations of race and culture in America. In a new epilogue, Takaki argues that the social health of the United States rests largely on the ability of Americans of all races and cultures to build on an established and positive legacy of cross-cultural cooperation and understanding in the coming 21st century. Observing that by 2050 all Americans will be minorities, Takaki urges us to ask ourselves: Will America fulfill the promise of equality or will America…    
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Book details

List price: $94.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/9/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 9.09" wide x 5.98" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

One -- Republicanism
The ""Iron Cage"" in the New Nation
The Birth of a Virtuous People
Race and Republican Society
""Diseases"" of the Mind and Sun
""Republican Machines""
The ""Lovely White""
Within the ""Bowels"" of the Republic
Head Over Heart
Black Colonization
Red Lockeans
Two -- Enterprise
Beyond Primitive Accumulation
Democracy in America:
The Inner World of the Bourgeoisie
The Market Revolution and Race
The Metaphysics of Civilization: ""The Red Race on Our Borders""
An Age of Confidence
Jibbenainosay: Indian-Hatin in Fantasy
Jackson: Metaphysician of Indian-Hating
The Metaphysics of Civilization: ""The Black Race Within Our Bosom""
The Black Child/Savage: A Jacksonian Persuasion
""Warranteeism"": A Vision of a ""Marx of the Master Class""
Aesculapius Was a White Man: Race and the Cult of True Womanhood
Three -- Technology
An American Prospero in King Arthur's Court
The New Body
White Technology: Anglo Over Mexican
The Triumph of Mind in Ameica
The Iron Horse in the West
""Red Gifts"" and ""White Gifts"": The World Custer Lost
The Scientific Management of Indians
Civilization in the ""New South""
Machines and Magnolias"" Black Labor in an Industrial Order
The ""Negro Question"": ""Higher Life"" in the South
The ""Heathen Chinee"" and American Technology
Ah Sin in America
A Yellow Proletariat: Caste and Class in Industrial America
A Vision of Catastrophe: Henry George and the American Tower of Babel
Four -- Empire
The Masculine Thrust Toward Asia
The ""Iron Cage"" in a Corporate Civilization
The New Empire: American Asceticism and the ""New Navy""
Down from the Gardens of Asia
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index