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Author: Joseph Margulies

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A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, Vol. 1

Author: Ronald T Takaki

A dramatic new retelling of our nation's past by today's preeminent multiculturalism scholar, Ronald Takaki, this book examines America's history in "a different mirror"--from the perspective of the minority peoples themselves.

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.

Publishers Weekly

In a vibrantly rich, moving multicultural tapestry, Takaki ( Strangers from a Different Shore ) provides a fresh slant on American society by tracing the interwoven histories of Native Americans, Africans, Chinese, Japanese, Chicanos, Irish and Jewish immigrants. We see how 17th-century white planters, anxious to weaken an armed, politicized, white proletariat, enslaved an unarmed black workforce, with explosive consequences. We follow Chicano struggles as an integral part of America's westward expansion and learn how Jewish-black solidarity extends back to John Brown's uprising in 1856 against slavery in Kansas, an insurrection in which Jews participated. We see how oppression of the Irish (the first people the English called ``savages'') foreshadowed the subjugation of Native Americans. Interweaving voices from all points on the ethnic rainbow, Takaki, ethnic studies professor at UC Berkeley, has produced a brilliant revisionist history of America that is likely to become a classic of multicultural studies. Photos. (June)

Library Journal

In his new work, Takaki ( Strangers from a Different Shore , LJ 7/89; Iron Cages , LJ 3/1/80) calls for ``a more inclusive and accurate history of all the peoples of America.'' But the book is limited to accounts of Native Americans, Africans, Irish, Mexicans, Chinese, Japanese, and Eastern European Jews, prefaced with a discussion of English settlers in the 17th century. Even within these limits, this book is not the ``story of multidimensional ethnic interaction'' that the author desires. Beyond victimization, few common themes emerge. Still, the book is useful, notwithstanding the author's sometimes questionable generalizations, oversimplifications, and fuzzy chronology. Not even seasoned historians will be knowledgeable about all the groups included. Takaki fails to show us how to reunite American history, but he provides in one volume a very readable version of some lesser-known parts. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 2/15/93.-- Robert W. Frizzell, Hendrix Coll . Lib . , Conway, Ark.

School Library Journal

YA-Takaki traces the economic and political history of Indians, African Americans, Mexicans, Japanese, Chinese, Irish, and Jewish people in America, with considerable attention given to instances and consequences of racism. The narrative is laced with short quotations, cameos of personal experiences, and excerpts from folk music and literature. Well-known occurrences, such as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, the Trail of Tears, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Japanese internment are included. Students may be surprised by some of the revelations, but will recognize a constant thread of rampant racism. The author concludes with a summary of today's changing economic climate and offers Rodney King's challenge to all of us to try to get along. Students will find this overview to be an accessible, cogent jumping-off place for American history and political science assignments, plus a guide to the myriad other sources identified in the notes.- Barbara Hawkins, Oakton High School, Fairfax, VA

Table of Contents:

	Author's Note	v
1	A Different Mirror	1
Part 1	Boundlessness
	Before Columbus: Vinland	21
2	The "Tempest" in the Wilderness: The Racialization of Savagery	24
	Shakespeare's Dream about America	25
	A World Turned Upside Down	44
3	The "Giddy Multitude": The Hidden Origins of Slavery	51
	A View from the Cabins: White and Black Laborers in Early Virginia	52
	"English and Negroes in Armes"	61
	The Wolf by the Ears	68
Part 2	Borders
	Prospero Unbound: The Market Revolution	79
4	Toward the Stony Mountains: From Removal to Reservation	84
	Andrew Jackson: Symbol for an Age	84
	The Land-Allotment Strategy: The Choctaw Experience	88
	The Treaty Strategy: The Cherokees' Trail of Tears	93
	Where the Buffalo No Longer Roam	98
5	No More Peck o' Corn: Slavery and Its Discontents	106
	Racial Borders in the Free States	107
	Was Sambo Real?	110
	Slave Son, White Father	122
	Black Nationalism: Nostalgia in the Niger	126
	"Tell Linkum Dat We Wants Land"	131
6	Emigrants from Erin: Ethnicity and Class within White America	139
	The Irish Exodus	139
	An "Immortal Irish Brigade" of Workers	146
	The Irish Maid in America	154
	The Irish "Ethnic" Strategy	160
7	Foreigners in Their Native Land: Manifest Destiny in the Southwest	166
	"In the Hands of an Enterprising People"	166
	"Occupied" Mexico	177
	The Making of a Mexican Proletariat	184
8	Searching for Gold Mountain: Strangers from a Pacific Shore	191
	Pioneers from Asia	192
	Chinese Calibans: The Borders of Exclusion	204
	Twice a Minority: Chinese Women in America	209
	A Colony of "Bachelors"	215
Part 3	Distances
	The End of the Frontier	225
9	The "Indian Question": From Reservation to Reorganization	228
	Wounded Knee: The Significance of the Frontier in Indian History	228
	The Father of the Reservation System	231
	Allotment and Assimilation	234
	The Indian New Deal: The Remaking of Native America	238
10	Pacific Crossings: Seeking the Land of Money Trees	246
	Picture Brides in America	247
	Tears in the Canefields	251
	Transforming the Land: From Deserts to Farms	266
11	Between "Two Endless Days": The Continuous Journey to the Promised Land	277
	Exodus from the Pale	277
	A Shtetl in America	283
	In the Sweatshops: An Army of Garment Workers	288
	Daughters of the Colony	293
	Up from Greenhorns: Crossing Delancey Street	298
12	El Norte: The Borderland of Chicano America	311
	The Crossing	312
	A Reserve Army of Chicano Labor	317
	The Internal Borders of Exclusion	326
	The Barrio: Community in the Colony	334
13	To the Promised Land: Blacks in the Urban North	340
	The Black Exodus	341
	The Urban Crucible	347
	Yearning for Blackness in Urban America	355
	"But a Few Pegs to Fall": The Great Depression	366
Part 4	Crossings
	The Ashes at Dachau	373
14	Through a Glass Darkly: Toward the Twenty-first Century	378
	A War for Democracy: Fighting as One People	378
	America's Dilemma	399
	A Note of Appreciation	429
	Notes	430
	Index	495
	About the Author	508