Different Mirror for Young People A History of Multicultural America

Name: Different Mirror for Young People A History of Multicultural America
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ISBN: 9781609804169

ISBN-10: 1609804163

ISBN-13: 9781609804169

Edition: 2012

Authors: Ronald Takaki, Rebecca Stefoff

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A longtime professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, Ronald Takaki was recognized as one of the foremost scholars of American ethnic history and diversity. When the first edition of A Different Mirror was published in 1993, Publishers Weekly called it "a brilliant revisionist history of America that is likely to become a classic of multicultural studies" and named it one of the ten best books of the year. Now Rebecca Stefoff, who adapted Howard Zinn's best-selling A People's History of the United States for younger readers, turns the updated 2008 edition of Takaki's multicultural masterwork into A Different Mirror for Young People.Drawing on Takaki's vast…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Publication date: 10/16/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.55" wide x 7.91" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Rebecca Stefoff is the author of many books for children and young adults, including a biography of the Shawnee chieftain Tecumseh and her adaptation of Ronald Takaki's award-winning history of Asian Americans, Strangers from a Different Shore.



Introduction My Story, Our Story



Why a Different Mirror?



Removing the "Savages"



The Hidden Origins of Slavery



The Road to the Reservation



Life in Slavery



The Flight from Ireland



The War Against Mexico



From China to Gold Mountain



Dealing with the Indians



The Japanese and "Money Trees"



Jews Are Pushed from Russia



Up from Mexico



Blacks Arrive in Northern Cities



World War II and America's Ethnic Problem



Calls for Change



New Waves of Newcomers



"We Will All Be Minorities"


Notes


Glossary


Index