A different mirror : a history of multicultural America / Ronald Takaki.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Boston : Little, Brown & Co., c1993.Edition: 1st pbk. edDescription: ix, 508 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0316831115 :
  • 9780316831116
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973.04 T139d
LOC classification:
  • E 184 .A1 T335 1993b
Contents:
A different mirror -- Boundlessness -- Before Columbus: Vinland -- The "Tempest" in the Wilderness: The racialization of savagery -- Shakespeare's dream about America -- A world turned upside down -- The "Giddy Multitude": The hidden origins of slavery -- A view from the cabins: White and black laborers in early Virginia -- "English and negroes in armes" -- The wolf by the ears -- Borders -- Prospero unbound: The market revolution -- Andrew Jackson: symbol for an age -- The land-allotment strategy: The Choctaw experience -- The teaty strategy: The Cherokees' trail of tears -- Where the buffalo no longer roam -- No more peck o' corn: slavery and its discontents -- Racial borders in the free states -- Was Sambo real? -- Slave son, white father -- Black nationalism: nostalgia in the Niger -- "Tell Linkum dat we wants land" -- Emigrants from Erin: ethnicity and class within white America -- The Irish exodus -- An "immortal Irish Brigade" of workers -- The Irish maid in America -- The Irish "ethnic" strategy -- Foreigners in their native land: manifest destiny in the Southwest -- "In the hands of an enterprising people" -- "Occupied" Mexico -- The making of a Mexican proletariat -- Searching for Gold Mountain: strangers from a Pacific Shore -- Pioneers from Asia -- Chinese Calibans: The borders of exclusion -- Twice a minority: Chinese women in America -- A colony of "Bachelors".
Distances -- The end of the frontier -- The "Indian Question": from reservation to reorganization -- Wounded knee: The significance of the frontier in Indian history -- The father of the reservation system -- Allotment and assimilation -- The Indian new deal: the remaking of Native America -- Pacific crossings: seeking the land of money trees -- Picture brides in America -- Tears in the Canefields -- Transforming the land: from deserts to farms -- Between "two endless days": The continuous journey to the promised land -- Exodus from the pale -- A shtetl in America -- In the sweatshops: an army of garment workers -- Daughters of the colony -- Up from Greenborns: Crossing Delancey Street -- El Norte: The borderland of Chicano America -- The crossing -- A reserve army of Chicano labor -- The internal borders of exclusion -- The Barrio: community in the colony -- To the promised land: blacks in the urban north -- The black exodus -- The urban crucible -- Yearning for blackness in urban America -- "But a few pegs to fall": The Great Depression -- Crossings -- The ashes at Dachau -- Through a glass darkly: toward the Twenty-first Century -- A war for democracy: fighting as one people -- America's dilemma.
Summary: Beginning with the colonization of the "New World" and ending with the Los Angeles riots of 1992, this book recounts the history of America in the voices 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. In this significant work of scholarship, Professor Takaki grapples with the raw truth of American history and examines the ultimate question of what it means to be an American.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 430-493) and index.

A different mirror -- Boundlessness -- Before Columbus: Vinland -- The "Tempest" in the Wilderness: The racialization of savagery -- Shakespeare's dream about America -- A world turned upside down -- The "Giddy Multitude": The hidden origins of slavery -- A view from the cabins: White and black laborers in early Virginia -- "English and negroes in armes" -- The wolf by the ears -- Borders -- Prospero unbound: The market revolution -- Andrew Jackson: symbol for an age -- The land-allotment strategy: The Choctaw experience -- The teaty strategy: The Cherokees' trail of tears -- Where the buffalo no longer roam -- No more peck o' corn: slavery and its discontents -- Racial borders in the free states -- Was Sambo real? -- Slave son, white father -- Black nationalism: nostalgia in the Niger -- "Tell Linkum dat we wants land" -- Emigrants from Erin: ethnicity and class within white America -- The Irish exodus -- An "immortal Irish Brigade" of workers -- The Irish maid in America -- The Irish "ethnic" strategy -- Foreigners in their native land: manifest destiny in the Southwest -- "In the hands of an enterprising people" -- "Occupied" Mexico -- The making of a Mexican proletariat -- Searching for Gold Mountain: strangers from a Pacific Shore -- Pioneers from Asia -- Chinese Calibans: The borders of exclusion -- Twice a minority: Chinese women in America -- A colony of "Bachelors".

Distances -- The end of the frontier -- The "Indian Question": from reservation to reorganization -- Wounded knee: The significance of the frontier in Indian history -- The father of the reservation system -- Allotment and assimilation -- The Indian new deal: the remaking of Native America -- Pacific crossings: seeking the land of money trees -- Picture brides in America -- Tears in the Canefields -- Transforming the land: from deserts to farms -- Between "two endless days": The continuous journey to the promised land -- Exodus from the pale -- A shtetl in America -- In the sweatshops: an army of garment workers -- Daughters of the colony -- Up from Greenborns: Crossing Delancey Street -- El Norte: The borderland of Chicano America -- The crossing -- A reserve army of Chicano labor -- The internal borders of exclusion -- The Barrio: community in the colony -- To the promised land: blacks in the urban north -- The black exodus -- The urban crucible -- Yearning for blackness in urban America -- "But a few pegs to fall": The Great Depression -- Crossings -- The ashes at Dachau -- Through a glass darkly: toward the Twenty-first Century -- A war for democracy: fighting as one people -- America's dilemma.

Beginning with the colonization of the "New World" and ending with the Los Angeles riots of 1992, this book recounts the history of America in the voices 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. In this significant work of scholarship, Professor Takaki grapples with the raw truth of American history and examines the ultimate question of what it means to be an American.

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